Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

Deputy Howlin certainly was.

People who create waste should deal with the waste. We had this discussion in the energy area as well on the matter of creating the energy base load which we must have to protect our country and our people. Obviously, there has been a debate.

People would ask why drag spent plutoniam rods or whatever around the world by sea. The basic point of the Labour Party amendments is that there are 300,000 square miles which the Marine Institute is always telling us are our seas, we have a guardianship role for those seas and we should begin to take that seriously. Some 0.5 million square kilometres of ocean is our ocean to protect, to look after and to defend and my amendments seek to do that. First and foremost we should take responsibility so that whoever comes into it is answerable to us. That is why I will press some of these amendments.

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