Kildare County Council has announced plans for the remediation of Kerdiffstown landfill, located outside Naas.

Responsibility for the site and all of the site management controls will be transferred to the Council in the next few weeks.

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Alan Kelly, has welcomed the plans.

He said: "This year I have secured €8.5m of exchequer funding for my Department's landfill remediation budget. A significant proportion of this will be used to support the remediation works at Kerdiffstown.

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"My Department is fully supportive of the need to finally put this site to rights. I brought a memo to Government outlining the detail of this complex project, the remediation process, including details of the timeframes and funding requirements.

"There is a clear understanding at Government that this project is a complex, multi-annual task that will require significant further public investment over the coming five to seven years – but we are committed to doing it over that period of time."

(CD/JP)