Call for Kildare County Council to seek a summary of illegal dumping on the Curragh Plains

Councillor Mark Lynch has requested that Kildare County Council seeks a summary of the organised dumping which occurred at the Curragh Plains and to promote it to Natural Heritage Area status.

In recent years illegal dumping on the Curragh Plains has been met with dismay by local residents and councillors.

Cllr Lynch is requesting that the council write to An Taoiseach, The Minister of Defence and the Minister of Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht to 'advise them of the alleged state organised illegal dumping on a special area of conservation (SAC) that they are tasked to protect and that we request that action is immediately taken by these departments to respond to their own 1999 inter departmental task force report'.

They departments are being asked to progress this in a concerted manner to properly protect the Curragh Plains, promote it to Natural Heritage Area status and secure it's long term protection.

The issue will be raise at the monthly meeting of Kildare County Council on Monday week.