Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I want to move on to landfill. Mr. Griffin and I have had this conversation before because Kildare is a particular case in point and we have one of the three super dumps or landfills as they are called now and an application was made to An Bord Pleanála for a big expansion. The last time we met or the time before Mr. Griffin told us we were on a knife-edge in where waste is disposed of. We have convoys of trucks from all over the place arriving to Kildare to the Drehid landfill because there is no landfill nearer to them. Whereas a rosy picture is presented, it is far from that when one happens to be beside a gigantic landfill. Where are we in our capacity to assimilate waste? We are not producing less of it. Where is it going? What lifespan is left in the other two landfills? Is it going to incineration?