Seanad debates

Thursday, 13 February 2003

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

 

Mayo County Council is one of the few local authorities to have two landfill sites that are completely modernised following investment of £30 million. Both have recycling facilities. The biggest problem is transporting the recyclable material from County Mayo to wherever it will be processed. The Government should fund schemes to deal with this rather than handing over power to county managers. What will happen if we hand more power to them? Will the Mayo county manager have a different system to the one in place in Galway? Will different systems be in place in Cork and Waterford? They cannot. The Department will tell all county managers they will have incineration and that they can do what they like after that to operate the system. That instruction will come from the Minister and his Department. That is what seems to be happening in the Bill.

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