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asked in the Dáil by Ciarán - Environment
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25 October 2005
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Environment
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Environment Fund
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Ciarán Cuffe
asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will give details of the amounts raised in each year from the environment fund; the detailed breakdown of the projects financed by the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government:
The environment fund is used to support a wide range of waste management, litter and other environmental initiatives as provided for in section 74(9) of the Waste Management Act 1996, as inserted by section 12 of the Waste Management (Amendment) Act 2001 and the Waste Management (Environment Fund) (Prescribed Payments) Regulations 2003. Total receipts on a cash basis in each year into the environment fund since its establishment are set out in the following table:
€m
2002 19.940
2003 41.917
2004 39.092
2005 to date 35.145
Total 136.094
To date a total of €87.058 million has been spent from the environment fund on a wide range of activities, detailed as follows:
Waste Management Infrastructure and the subvention of Local Authority Recycling Operational Costs 42.356 €m
Management Infrastructure and the subvention of Local Authority Recycling Operational Costs; Bottom of Form Environment Awareness, including the Race Against Waste campaign, and various litter initiatives 10.677 €m
Enhanced waste management enforcement initiatives currently being taken by local authorities and the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) 11.936 €m
National Waste Prevention and Market Development Programmes 0.283 €m
North-South matters including the Scheme for the Management of Waste Fridges and Freezers 0.754 €m
Research & Development in the Environmental Protection Agency 9.250 €m
Contributions to International Environment FundsContributions to International Environment Funds. Contributions to International Environment Funds. Bottom of Form 6.982 €m
Activities relating to Air Quality and Climate Change 0.548 €m
Environmental levy operational costs 2.643 €m
Miscellaneous — Printing, Publishing Etc. 0.312 €m
Producer Responsibility Initiatives 0.533 €m
Activities relating to Sustainable Development 0.413 €m
Activities relating to Water Quality 0.371 €m
Total 87.058 €m
Further commitments totalling some €53 million will arise under the above activities.
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