Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I will be honest with the public and explain that there are four elements to delivery of the best waste management system. These are prevention and minimisation, recycling, landfill and thermal treatment or incineration. That is now in place and the Senator need not think that after years of struggle to achieve it I will allow every local authority to overturn it by the end of the year as they engage in fancy footwork in anticipation of the local elections next year.

Members of the public are fed up with the hogwash uttered by the Senator in the House. They know there is a crisis and they want technological and cost-effective solutions.