Margaret Cox (Fianna Fail)

I am delighted the Minister is present and I agree with him that the Bill is an important part of the agenda for environmental excellence, which is something everyone in Ireland believes in. I accept we must have a framework of regulation and control. If we do not have that framework we will be unable to achieve the types of changes we must make in our culture. We must change the landscape of Ireland and get rid of cars abandoned in fields, mattresses thrown over hedges and rubbish dumped on the side of the street. That is done by people who do not think about what they are doing. We must put a framework in place to support a change from the way we have done things for many years to how we want to see Ireland in the future.