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Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: We do not hear that today, but it happened and we can see the results, including fewer bronchial problems, improved air quality and a better quality of life. For many years, the Minister, Deputy Gormley, has spoken out on issues like climate change, when nobody else — apart from the Green Party — was listening. Now, nobody, except the extremely deluded, questions the science behind...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I am not sure if that reflects Fine Gael policy, but it is certainly not environmentally sustainable. I welcome the Minister's commitment to a major change in Ireland's waste policies. Some achievements have been made by previous Governments but they do not go far enough. The Green Party's goal — and I am glad to hear Fine Gael repeating it here — is for a zero waste society. It is...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: We can all agree on that, hopefully, but Fine Gael Members had better tell their councillors that they have agreed on it here.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: In Ontario they separate everything, wet and dry. The wet material goes for composting, while the dry material is all segregated. There is no grey bin and that should be our objective. I hope we can all come together at local authority level to implement it. That is the way to achieve zero waste. This critical shift would signal an end to the unsustainable approaches to waste management...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: When he was Minister for Finance, Deputy Quinn told me he could not introduce a plastic bag tax. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Trevor Sargent: It is the truth. Deputy Quinn was wrong and should eat his words.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: There is hardly much difference.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Freedom of speech.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Lá mór stairiúil don Chomhaontas Ghlas é seo agus don gluaiseacht glas ar fud na cruinne. Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil le gach duine atá mar bhall den Rialtas. Is lá stairiúil do gach aon duine agus do chlann gach aon duine atá roghnaithe. Apart from being a proud day for all those appointed, it is a particularly proud day for me and all Green Party members throughout...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: A GMO-free zone will enhance the livelihoods of farmers if Deputy Sherlock knows anything about them.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: We have to review waste policy to remove the problems being caused to many of our communities by the threat of incinerators and super dumps. Net metering, for which we called in Opposition, is now in the programme for Government. We can now review and reform the EPA in Government. That will help in many of those issues that have caused huge problems for communities around the country. The...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: If it was not appropriate to question the Taoiseach then in the teeth of a general election campaign it is most cynical to decide now is the time.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The votes have been cast; the result is in the box——

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: ——and we now have to work with what we have.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: The tribunals will do their work and I have faith in them. The reality for Fine Gael is a very difficult one——

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: I did not interrupt Deputy Bruton. If he does not mind I will just finish.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: If Fine Gael really wanted to be in Government, its members should have looked back at John A. Costello. He wanted to be in Government and he asked a man who was chief of staff of the IRA to serve as Minister for Foreign Affairs

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: If Fine Gael wanted to be in Government it would have gone to Sinn Féin and asked it to do business. Fine Gael does not want to be in Government.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: Fine Gael cannot take being in government and that is why the party is in Opposition.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Trevor Sargent: How does Deputy Bruton know?