The Government accepts all of these fundamentals and supports giving them practical effect in a very substantive way. Residual waste simply has to be dealt with and we cannot just walk away from that. Taking the elements of an integrated approach, to engage in cherry-picking is simply fooling ourselves and constitutes a bit of a cop-out. There is no point fooling ourselves that we can do something in the short term because we cannot afford that type of approach. We cannot wait until we have pushed our recycling levels to the limit and then start to make decisions about how we deal with the remainder of our waste. If we favour an integrated approach, we have to face the reality of that and not cherrypick. Some of the individual comments referred to prevention and reduction of waste and the use of sustainable resources. In my opening statement I set out what is being done and I indicated that there are areas which are also the subject of much discussion at EU level. The Minister has identified initiatives in these areas to be advanced as a priority during the Irish Presidency in the first half of next year.