A High Court judge has complimented Wexford County Council on its investigation into the disposal of domestic waste which had been collected in the south-east but ended up in Northern Ireland.
Mr Justice Quirke said the council had carried out its investigation in a thorough manner and in the public good.
Everyone in the community was extremely conscious, or should be, of the necessity for care in relation to the disposal of waste, he said.
The judge made the remarks when granting an order requiring a Wexford waste operator to act in strict and express compliance with all the terms and conditions of its waste-collection permit limiting the transportation and disposal of waste within the Republic.
The injunction was granted, together with costs, against Mr Seamus Kelly, trading as Seamus A. Kelly and Sons, of Courtnacuddy, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, who is the holder of a waste collection permit.
Earlier, the judge was told that in September last a truck carrying waste, which vehicle was owned in the North, had been followed from Co Wexford as it went northwards.
In an affidavit, Mr Kelly said the council had not established a basis for its assertion that his firm had transported waste to Northern Ireland in breach of its permit.