James Bannon (Fine Gael)

At their last parliamentary party meeting, the Progressive Democrats unanimously agreed to scrap the regional waste management plan and bring forward a national plan for a super incinerator. It proposes to locate this super incinerator in the midlands. The time has come to have a debate on waste management because there are differences in Government on the issue. Both the Tánaiste, Deputy Harney, and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, gave the parliamentary party a commitment that they would bring up the matter at the next Cabinet meeting. The issue has appeared in the national media and the party is proposing one super incinerator for the country to be situated in the midlands.