Fiona O'Malley (Dún Laoghaire, Progressive Democrats)

It is not possible. A policy rooted in such a scenario is not dealing with the real world. The pages that all the Deputies produced last night to help with their speeches is waste generated. I agree it can be recycled but the recycling system wastes energy too. This notion of zero waste is an utter fallacy. I am sure Fine Gael and the Labour Party are quite anxious about this. We must get the Green Party grounded in real policies.

I have tremendous regard for my colleague on the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan. We work well together on energy, on which, by and large, the Green Party has a sensible policy, but it needs to get into the real world with some of its other policies. It is not behaving as if it is a real party with real policies in that sense.

The Green Party has always gone into the politics of the negative. I will not list and quote statistics about what the Government has done here——

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