Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

I wish to express my disappointment at the reaction of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy John Gormley, to An Bord Pleanála's decision regarding the Poolbeg incinerator. I heard him say incineration would not be the policy of this Government at the Magill summer school. The Minister was a deal maker at the Cabinet table, he knew this decision was imminent and the incineration plant is in his own constituency. He did not show leadership in changing Government policy.