Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

Speaking of Green Party Ministers, a newspaper report today suggests the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, may wish to shift the incinerator from his own constituency to Rathcoole in the constituency I share with his colleague, Deputy Gogarty, and the Minister of State at the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Curran. This application got in under the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Act which was opposed by the Labour Party. The Act is surely in breach of the public participation directive which has been promised but which has not yet been transposed.

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