Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will move on. However, I want to clarify an issue that I might have glossed over. I say to those interested in the recycling issue the news is not half as good as I read out a moment ago. The table covers the 2.7 million tonnes of waste in the country in the year. Recycling was 34% and recycling involved in compost and digestion was 7%. In fact the recycling was only 41%. It goes on to state that incineration, which they call energy recovery, is at 33%. In other words then the other 26% in landfill. Really we are only at 41% for recycling, 33% for incineration and 26% for landfill. That is a bit different because it had included the incineration figure under recovery. I just wanted to spell out the difference between the original figures and the breakdown there now.