Seanad debates
Tuesday, 25 February 2003
Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Committee Stage.
The Minister is correct: incineration is not the word, it must be waste-to-energy or waste-to-heat. At one stage there was a proposal, which received some support, to use the disused turf-burning power stations in the midlands for waste disposal. However, they could not be used because the temperatures that would be generated would not be high enough to get rid of the waste properly. The technology is now advancing fast enough to do this properly and public representatives have a responsibility to show some leadership and backbone at public meetings on what can be an emotional issue. Perhaps that is why some of us are in the Seanad rather than the Dáil, though I exempt the Minister from that criticism.
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