53. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if it is proposed to implement additional measures that would assist in the reduction of littering in public places and along roads throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65864/26]
Topics / Litter Pollution
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsLitter Pollution
23 questions from 9 TDs, between 1 April 2025 and 17 September 2026.
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114. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 28 July 2026, whether the sampling, survey and scoring methodology of the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System has been evaluated since 2015 by a body independent of his Department, participating local authorities and the contracted litter monitoring body (details supplied); for …
115. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment to list each project funded or operated by his Department since 2015 in which members of the public participated directly in structured litter monitoring or scientific knowledge production (details supplied); the operator, expenditure, participant number, resulting dataset or research output and publication location, in tabular fo…
148. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment each documented quality-assurance, inter-rater reliability, data-validation and audit procedure currently applied to the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System; the body responsible for each; its frequency; the number of surveys audited and non-conformities identified in each year from 2021 to 2025; and where the applicable p…
96. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether the re-examination of cigarette litter referred to in Dáil Éireann on 10 June 2026 will formally evaluate existing Irish citizen generated environmental evidence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50130/26]
103. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether the full operating methodology of the national litter pollution monitoring system will be published, including the sampling frame, the GIS site selection methodology, the calculation of the Litter Pollution Index, the quality assurance and audit protocol, and all changes to the methodology since 1999; and if he will make…
104. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the total annual cost of the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System since 2015, including the Litter Monitoring Body contract value, Departmental administration, software and GIS costs, and the estimated cost of local authority staff time in conducting, submitting and validating the surveys required annually; and if he will…
105. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether the underlying survey level data of the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System is published as open data in machine readable form, including GPS data, timestamp, survey type, litter pollution index score, litter categories, causative factors and audit status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50144/26]
106. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether any interactive map of the survey locations or results of the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System is publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50145/26]
107. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System records the brands or producers of littered items; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50146/26]
108. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether members of the public, TidyTowns groups, schools or citizen science platforms are permitted to contribute evidence to the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System; if not, the reason citizens are not able to contribute to a publicly funded environmental monitoring system; and if he will make a statement on the matter.…
109. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the technologies, university research partnerships or citizen participation his Department or the Litter Monitoring Body has invited or evaluated since 2015 to broaden or modernise data collection under the National Litter Pollution Monitoring System; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50148/26]
111. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether his Department, or any agency, body, programme, contractor or public funder under his remit, has ever formally evaluated, procured, funded, integrated or corresponded with a platform (details supplied) or its citizen generated litter data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50150/26]
300. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he plans to increase the maximum fine that local authorities can apply for dog fouling offences under the litter pollution Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36679/26]
184. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he would consider updating the Litter Pollution Act 1997 so as to increase the current fines structure of an on-the-spot fine of €150 or a maximum fine of €3,000 in court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58656/25]
16. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his Department would consider the creation of a dedicated app to highlight the locations of public bins across Dublin to reduce littering. [36436/25]
271. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if additional specific measures will be introduced to deal with the increasing evidence of littering throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28860/25]
19. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the plans in place to tackle the huge amount of litter and environmental damage caused by the practice of tossing cigarette butts given that these account for 50% of visible litter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27789/25]
20. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if any research has been carried out as to whether increased fines would help pay for additional litter wardens to deal with litter and illegal dumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27790/25]
241. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of litter fines issued by each local authority over the past three years; the number issued for each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25691/25]
242. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of litter fines issued by each local authority over the past three years where CCTV was used in evidence; the number issued for each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25692/25]
559. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice the number of prosecutions for dog fouling in each of the four Dublin local authorities in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025. [15437/25]
560. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice the number of prosecutions for littering in each of the four Dublin local authorities in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025. [15438/25]