Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 2 Jul 1996

Vol. 467 No. 7

Written Answers. - Hospital Waste Disposal.

Noel Dempsey

Question:

112 Mr. Dempsey asked the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 9 on 6 June 1996, the way in which hospitals that have ceased incineration for the disposal of clinical and hospital waste currently dispose of such waste, pending the proposed replacement of existing incinerators with new non-incineration technologies. [14345/96]

Minister for Health (Mr. Noonan,

Limerick East): Hospitals that have ceased incineration of health care risk waste generally employ contractors to dispose of the waste concerned in licensed facilities in the United Kingdom. Treatment by shredding the decontamination in microwave plants has been employed in James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown, and in Cork Regional Hospital.