Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council
2:45 pm
Mr. Owen Keegan:
Yes, but we had a signed project agreement from 2007. Prior to the agreement, there was agreement in principle in 2005 to sign the project agreement, and it was signed in 2007. My recollection is that penetration by the private operators began after that. I will be quite up-front: I do not think anybody would have gone ahead with this project if they had known that the whole structure of the market was going to change, but the project was conceived in a completely different era.