Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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My point is that they are not being dealt with at all. Two Senators and two members of the House of Lords walked around parts of south Armagh and were openly shown sites where laundering of diesel is taking place to beat the band, but nothing has happened about it. The agency has responsibility for protecting the environment and ensuring that waste is dealt with properly. The attitude to the illegal dumping of diesel leachate across the Border is symptomatic of a very lax approach to the overall implementation of the waste policy, which is a reliance on letters.