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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 11, 2019

QUESTION NO.23

QUESTION: Councillor M. Ward

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the financial cost to the Council to remove illegal dumping for each year since the privatisation of waste management services and to make a statement on the matter?

REPLY:

The table below sets out the annual cost to collect and dispose of illegally dumped waste in the County each year since the sale of the waste collection service to Greyhound Waste in 2011.  A review of operations within the Environment and Parks Depts took place in 2013 which led to the establishment of the Public Realm Section during 2013 and this involved the restructuring of the finances and budget at the time.  This has given better control and more accurate recording of expenditure on the various work programmes involved since that date.  The figures shown below for 2012 and 2013 are based largely on estimates of the quantity of waste which was illegally dumped (as it was not recorded separately) and estimates of the resources assigned to this work, and therefore the costs given for those years are estimates also.   

Year	Total costs
2012	€2,358,217
2013	€1,972,562
2014	€1,353,186
2015	€1,497,381
2016	€1,522,217
2017	€1,439,542
2018	€1,406,865