Dan Boyle (Green Party)

I support the calls made on yesterday's Order of Business and repeated today by Senator McCarthy that there should be a debate in this House on waste management in general and incineration in particular. Such a debate would be useful in a number of respects.

Until the decision of An Bord Pleanála to give planning permission for an incinerator at Poolbeg, some members of the Opposition claimed the Minister had already done a ready-up. If the Minister had directly intervened in the An Bord Pleanála process, I suspect he would have been criticised as well by Members of the Opposition.