David Norris (Independent)

That is shameful. We have to grow up and deal with it. If the local councils will not deal with waste for their own small political reasons, then it is right and appropriate that these powers should be transferred to the manager or to the Minister because, as a country, we have to be good neighbours and be responsible.

I greatly regret the collapse of the Irish Glass Bottle Company, partly because I knew that area of Dublin very well when I was younger. I used to walk the dogs along the strand. The IGBC was a real part of old Dublin and it is a great pity that with its collapse we have lost a certain element of recycling, even though I heard the Minister say on radio this morning that it is part of an all-Ireland solution and that we can still export to the North of Ireland, but we are dependent on it for a facility over which we have no control. I wish there had been another possibility.