Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Very briefly, the Deputy asked a question about the Minister, Deputy Gormley's comment, about making Poolbeg redundant. In fairness to the Minister, he made that reference to the overall capacity required nationally for incineration of terminal treatment. I have already outlined, as has the Minister, that if the recycling and MBT capacity is increased, that can reduce residual waste to a fraction of the waste to about 400,000 tonnes. It is in that capacity that he believes it can be reduced. That is the factual position.

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