John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

The story on which the Deputy bases her information is incorrect. The issue is unsegregated waste. It could be inferred from the newspaper article that 40% of waste is now being recycled. It gave the impression that materials which could be recycled were going to landfill and this is not the case. This is the crucial point which I bring to the Deputy's attention and which she needs to understand.

On the question of the principle of the polluter pays, I accept this principle and it is a core issue for my party. We were always brave enough, when it came to making these decisions at local authority level, to say that waste charges were needed. The same cannot be said for the Deputy's party because I have direct experience of that where people——

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