Cash boost for disused landfills
Some €13m has been earmarked for maintaining disused landfill dumps this year, the Government announced today.
The grants will be given to local councils to help carry out works on old municipal waste facilities highlighted as being risks to human health.
This is the first time taxpayers money has been allocated for such a scheme and is in response to local authority concerns that they could not afford to carry out the necessary treatments.
The sites to benefit from the scheme were identified by the Environmental Protection Agency and the European Court of Justice as needing urgent work.
Minister for the Environment Dick Roche said: “I am sure that this funding will enable the beneficiary local authorities to meet the costs of remediation and aftercare of their licensed landfills, which will in turn ensure the protection of the human health and environment in the areas surrounding these closed facilities.”
