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Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Deputy Creighton needs to have the record set straight and I can give her chapter and verse.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: It is not lies. I can get the quotes for the Deputy.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The Deputy has not been around a long time but I will tell her a little about what her party has done.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Unlike Deputy Gormley, none of the Fine Gael or Labour Deputies bothered to make an oral submission to the An Bord Pleanála hearing. Does the Deputy disagree?

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The Deputy needs to check her facts. That, more than anything else, shows the insincerity of her posturing here today. Fine Gael was clear in its policy in another democratic forum as recently as February. The issue of the Poolbeg incinerator came before my local authority, Fingal County Council, only four months ago, when Dublin City Council asked their colleagues in Fingal to support...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The Green Party councillors proposed that Fingal County Council would show solidarity with Dublin City Council and join them in opposing the incinerator. What did Fine Gael do?

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I will not give way because the Deputy knows the record.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: There is no need to give way.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The record shows that Fine Gael voted for the incineration proposal to go ahead. That is the truth.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Unfortunately, the Labour Party was not much better — split down the middle, with one voting for and another against. It is only fair to acknowledge that Sinn Féin and the Socialist Party have been consistent on the issue, including backing the Greens on this vote. The vote was split evenly; very interesting times. The Green Party cathaoirleach of the council, Councillor Joe Corr, came...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Regardless of what the Opposition is saying tonight, just for the record, Fine Gael has also voted in support of the proposed new landfill in the Nevitt.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: It is absolutely true and we know it.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I will give the information to the Deputy afterwards, in case he is not reading his minutes. In Fingal County Council, they had an opportunity to block the financing of this proposed major investment in simple disposal but they voted to ensure the funding for the landfill would be made available. I do not know where Fine Gael stands, but let me make it clear: the Green Party is in favour of...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: ——which prioritises reduction and recycling, and places incineration and landfill at the very bottom of the hierarchy. Fine Gael and Labour are in no position to lecture anybody in this House on this issue.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: To my mind, it is an exercise in hypocrisy, although I am glad of the opportunity to debate it.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: They know the impeccable record of the Minister, Deputy Gormley, and his commitment on this issue.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: They know he has stated at the Bord Pleanála hearing that he does not want a 600,000 tonne incinerator on the Poolbeg peninsula. They know the reasons he has given for this and they know he cannot legally speak on the issue here this evening, as he would like to do.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The Minister, Deputy Gormley, negotiated a Programme for Government with me and others, which contains significant commitments on waste management.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I do not know if the Deputy has read the programme for Government, but it contains significant commitments to reduce the waste crisis. It signals a new approach. The programme states there will be no guaranteed waste stream for incinerators and that there will be a new emphasis on mechanical biological treatment. This is welcome and means that biological waste will be diverted from...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I have no doubt, however, that the Minister, Deputy Gormley, will be vindicated and, as with so many other environmental issues, he will be proven correct. Deputies may recall that he campaigned against the serious smog problem in the 1980s and when he called for the banning of bituminous coal it was regarded as somewhat odd.