Kildare Co Council said it "achieved the required standard" on environmental targets in 2022

Kildare County Council (KCC) said the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Enforcement Performance Report for 2022 which shows that KCC "achieved the required standard across all of the National Enforcement Priorities (NEPs).

This is the second report under the revised Local Authority Performance Framework, which aims to align performance scores to the delivery of environmental outcomes under the National Enforcement Priorities (NEPs) by targeting key environmental issues.

The NEPs cover the areas of air enforcement, waste enforcement, water enforcement and noise enforcement. 

Local Authorities are assessed based on set criteria including compliance rates, compliance promotion and awareness, enforcement actions and environmental outcomes. 

Each NEP is scored according to a four-point scale – excellent, strong, moderate and limited, where local authorities demonstrate performance by the end of the three-year cycle, 2022 – 2024.

A KCC statement said:

"Kildare County Council scored excellent and strong across all of the national waste, water, air and noise enforcement categories as well as governance processes, and achieved the highest ranking across the following areas:

"National Waste Priorities: Construction & Demolition Waste, ELVs & Metals;

"National Water Priorities: Local Priorities & Water Quality Monitoring.

"National Air & Noise Priorities: Solid Fuel Air & Noise Controls (including planning), Ongoing Air & Noise Enforcement Work

Governance Processes,

"RMCEI Plan: Planning for NEPs, Review & Reporting."