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Written Answers — Garda Vetting Services: Garda Vetting Services (28 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the Garda clearance process; and the reason for the delays and discommoding this causes. [25072/06]

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I came in yesterday evening to listen to the Green Party debate this important strategic issue. I was sadly disappointed. I wasted my time. What I heard was one member of the Green Party after another kick their constituency colleagues around the place. Deputy Gormley started with his colleague, the Minister——

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: No. I am speaking about the Green Party.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: Would they mind not interrupting me until I make my points?

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: We were treated to a kicking of local constituency colleagues. I am sorry that the people are not in the Gallery today because I would have expected——

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: ——such a short time from a general election, that this is the opportunity for the Green Party to put its cards on the table, to announce its policies on these important issues and to tell its constituents who were in the Gallery exactly how it will deal with this critical waste problem. The Green Party recognises it as a critical waste problem but not one of them took the opportunity to...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I am. Deputy Gormley, in particular, was playing to the Gallery——

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: ——which was full of his constituents. I am sorry that those constituents are not present to hear what he would do were he in Government——

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: ——but this is the problem with the policies of the Green Party, which does not finish its sentences. They tell us the problem, which we all recognise, and what we all need to do, but they fail to deal with the responsibility of the response. They have never yet been in Government and they will be a long time waiting for office because they do not live in the real world dealing honestly...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: We all agreed targets for 2016 of 35% which we have almost reached.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: It would be nice of them to applaud success when it is achieved.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I agree with anybody who states that is not enough but let us try to get as much done as we can. Part of the reason that recycling efforts have been taken up so well in Ireland, to which Deputy Nolan also alluded, and which also has much to do with efforts such as programmes in schools, is undoubtedly the bring centres. My area of Glasthule has a new facility which means it is so much easier...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: In Flanders, which is the ideal to which we all aspire, the recycling rate has reached an incredible 70%. Would we not all like that in Ireland? Flanders' waste recovery to energy rate is 26% and its disposal rate is a mere 4%.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: They are able to do this because they have in place the waste management infrastructure, which includes incineration — the Green Party must get its head out of the clouds and have its policy rooted in the real world. We need to be honest about this. It is part of how Ireland will deal, not only with its waste problem but equally with helping energy generation. It is something we should be...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: I have heard them state that it is possible.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: It is not possible. A policy rooted in such a scenario is not dealing with the real world. The pages that all the Deputies produced last night to help with their speeches is waste generated. I agree it can be recycled but the recycling system wastes energy too. This notion of zero waste is an utter fallacy. I am sure Fine Gael and the Labour Party are quite anxious about this. We must get the...

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: ——because they have been recited previously. We have a good track record.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: Nobody will deny there are problems but if everybody in this House were honest, they would agree that some type of energy waste recovery facility is required and will be delivered in this country.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: We should all back it because the alternative, as we all know, is noxious, poisonous landfill. I was watching on television quite recently the opening of a new landfill site in Galway.

Waste Management: Motion (Resumed). (21 Jun 2006)

Fiona O'Malley: On the same day a planning application had gone in to extend the Indaver facility in Meath. The television reporter stated he knew which place he would like to live next to. People, particularly from the Green Party, are most dishonest about emissions.