Dáil debates

Tuesday, 3 July 2007

 

Waste Management: Motion.

6:00 pm

Photo of Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)

I move:

That Dáil Éireann,

noting,

the electoral success of candidates in the Dublin area opposed to the Government's plans to build an incinerator at Poolbeg;

that over 300,000 Dublin voters supported such candidates;

that the vast majority of the TDs elected for the Dublin region are opposed to the plan; and

the stated policy of the elected members of Dublin City Council;

concludes that no electoral mandate for this project exists and calls on the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, using his powers under section 24(c) of the Waste Management Act 1996, to require the managers of Dublin City Council, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Fingal County Council and South Dublin County Council to vary the replacement waste management plan for the Dublin region, made by them on 11 November 2005, by the deletion of paragraph 18.8 and the exclusion of the siting on Poolbeg Peninsula of a 'waste to energy (incineration)' plant.

I wish to share time with Deputies Creighton, D'Arcy, McEntee, Mitchell and Varadkar.

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