Seanad debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2003

Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).

 

The changes at local authority level are very welcome. Dublin has had a problem for the last two or three years at city council level, as the Minister knows, in that it could not strike a rate. This was because members of the smaller parties did not want to go out and tell people that they would have to pay if they wanted a playground in their flat complex or new windows in their senior citizens' home. Good money could not be thrown after bad in trying to maintain a whole system of pollution control. The culture is changing. Huge advances are being made, particularly at school level. There is an amazing programme called Green Schools which has been a huge success.

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