Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

——it is a potential disaster for Galway city and I want to see it overcome. We can either spend our energies fighting one another or solving problems.

My trip to Galway tomorrow, at some inconvenience, arises because I want to spend time bringing together people from the Department, the county and city councils and the health authority and anyone else who is necessary to resolve the problem. There are solutions and our energy should go towards resolving the problem rather than being wasted in examining its history.

I agree with Deputy Michael Higgins that intermediate measures must be taken if there is to be an increase in public confidence. Obviously, the original Terryland plant must be taken out of commission. As the Deputy knows, the plant has filter beds and, if one watched the "Six One News", one would see the plant would not be an advertisement for how our country should be in 2007.

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