Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the proposal of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to usher in a new generation of nuclear power in Britain with a vengeance; the attending consequences and increased risks for Ireland of an upgraded and intensified nuclear waste reprocessing plant a short number of miles away at Sellafield in Cumbria, the closure of which is our Government's stated aim; the continuing discharge of nuclear waste into an already excessively contaminated Irish Sea and the increased vulnerability of the upgraded British nuclear plants to terrorist attacks. I call on the Government to impress on the British the urgency for increasing renewable energy sources to meet its future energy needs without the necessity for additional nuclear power stations.

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