Michael Kennedy (Dublin North, Fianna Fail)

A Cheann Comhairle, ba mhaith liom comhgairdeas a dhéanamh leat. I wish you well in your job.

I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Killeen, for sharing time. I am quite amused listening to the Fine Gael Deputies speak here. I remind them that Deputy Morgan mentioned Europe, where Fine Gael showed hypocrisy where its MEPs voted for an incineration programme. In the four local authorities in the Dublin region the Fine Gael members are part of the powersharing arrangement dating back a decade, if not more, and they voted in the waste management plan for the greater Dublin region. That plan incorporated two facets: that there would be landfill in my area of Dublin North and that there would be a waste to energy incinerator somewhere in the Dublin city area.

If Deputy O'Dowd, in particular, is so intent on not having a waste to energy incinerator in Poolbeg, I want to state clearly to him here that I will not take any more Dublin city waste into my area of Dublin North. We are doing our share currently. We have done so for decades.

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