Environmental Law

1. Some Practical Problems Identified

The Waste Bill, 1995 has just been amended in the Select Committee on Finance and General Affairs. No-one can fail to notice that the Bill's timely passage through the D il and Committee stages has resulted in it being on course for enactment during Ireland's forthcoming six months EU presidency. There remains only the report stage in the D il and Seanad before the Bill will be signed into law and becomes an Act.

This proposed legislation is to be welcomed as the first attempt under Irish law to comprehensively deal with the issue of waste from the Irish national, regional and Local Authority perspective. Designed as a framework piece of legislation, future implementation of the policies laid out in its 88 pages (70 sections) will require detailed ministerial regulation.