Seanad debates
Thursday, 13 February 2003
Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
We are arriving at this type of activity late in the day. I hope we will continue to work at it and make inroads. If not, we will be submerged. It might sound like something from a horror movie but it will happen. If towns like Athlone find their tipheads filling 15 years ahead of schedule, what will the rest of the country do? It is a modern, state of the art tiphead, correctly lined and layered, and everybody praised it when it opened. I do not know what the seepage will be from that tiphead and how it will affect water, drainage and other aspects of the environment. Questions are already being asked in the county in an effort to find out the ill effects.
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