I suppose one will ask how can anyone oppose, in principle, a Bill called the Protection of the Environment Bill. If it was purely about that, I would have no difficulty with it. However, it has been one of the singular failures of Government, and public administration in general, that we should have landed ourselves in this situation in 2003. We have a serious waste crisis. There is a major pollution problem in our rivers, streams and lakes, which are effectively dead as a result of pollution. There is the very difficult issue of illegal dumping, which has clearly been ongoing for a number of years. We have never managed to raise the levels of recycling material above very small figures. We have an increasing and very difficult litter problem, which is having a very bad effect on our towns and tourism industry. We have not tackled our responsibilities in regard to reducing waste and the amount of material being placed in landfill, and not advanced alternative safe technologies which have the confidence of the public. Instead, there are irreconcilable differences, which emerge at local authority and local community level, in particular, where populism is blamed for causing our waste problems. I would like to set the record straight on this.