115. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether the sampling, survey and scoring methodologies of the national litter pollution monitoring system have been evaluated by a body independent of his Department, participating local authorities and the contracted litter monitoring body; if so, the date, body, scope, principal findings and publication location of each such evaluation completed since 2015; and the internal quality-assurance and audit procedures currently applied to the NLPMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54819/26]

116. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment each project funded or operated by his Department since 2015 through which members of the public participated directly in structured litter monitoring or research, as distinct from awareness, complaint reporting, clean-up or consultation; the operator, funding, participation activity, participant number, resulting dataset or research output; whether participation remains open for each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54820/26]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 115 and 116 together.

I refer the Deputy to the reply to Question No 140 of 7 July 2026. The position is unchanged.