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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 08, 2021

QUESTION NO. 20

QUESTION: Councillor Joanna Tuffy

To ask the Chief Executive to give an update on the amount of money spent in responding to illegal dumping in 2020, in particular for the removal of illegal dumping in South Dublin County broken down by electoral area, and what is the estimated expenditure on removal of illegal dumping for 2021 and if he will make a statement on the matter

REPLY:

The total expenditure in 2020 on the Public Realm Section's response to illegal dumping is €2.9m across the entire county.  The total tonnage of waste collected in 2020 from illegal dumping blackspots, estate open spaces, laneways and other areas affected by illegal dumping was 6,760 tonnes and this represents a substantial increase on the 2019 figure of 6,026 tonnes. It should be noted that both the tonnage and cost figures given here include the tonnage and cost in relation to the Council's response to Halloween bonfires.  The budget provision for illegal dumping in 2021 is €3.08m.

It is not possible to give this information broken down by electoral area.  Council clean up crews and other resources are not assigned to electoral areas, they cross the electoral boundaries regularly in carrying out their work and remove waste from multiple locations spread across the electoral areas on a daily basis.  It is not possible to determine either the quantity of waste collected by electoral area and the cost of it's disposal as the materials are mixed together with other wastes in the collection truck prior to going to the waste transfer station.