Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)

I understand what the Minister is saying and fully appreciate that the EPA will be responsible for licensing. Let us consider Sligo County Council, which has no landfill and takes its waste to landfills in County Mayo. It is possible that running a landfill will become so expensive that Sligo County Council could easily be compelled to bring its waste to an incineration facility.

The Minister referred several times to weighting the various waste options. How does he intend to apply these weightings to landfill, recycling and incineration, now that it too will become part of the waste management programme?