Seanad debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2003

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

 

There is no doubt the Bill will further strengthen the Government's intention to proceed with a number of incinerators. This will be justified by referring to advanced technology and the examples of well-run facilities in other countries such as Denmark. The Minister may be correct in this regard. I have not seen such facilities at first hand, but I am sceptical that this is the solution to our waste management crisis. The Government is not fully committed to recycling minimisation and waste re-use because it has come out against the subsidisation of the recycling of domestic waste, as evidenced by the Minister's answer to Deputy John Bruton's parliamentary question in the Lower House.

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