Seanad debates

Tuesday, 27 May 2003

Sustaining Progress: Statements.

 

In the section dealing with waste management, policy details are, again, not spelled out. I have a major reservation about our failure to manage recycling. Our efforts in this regard have been much too diverse and disorganised. Until we put some kind of semi-State structure in place for waste management, we will not get to the core of the problem or be successful in managing what is a potentially lucrative area. I have previously advocated that a semi-State body such as Bord na Móna – which has done excellent work and shown considerable imagination in diversifying, but the core business of which has been greatly diminished because of the disappearance of the bogs – should be brought in to deal with waste management. If and when it becomes a profitable enterprise, it should, by all means, be sold off.

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