Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am raising the points that if one chooses to annul this statutory instrument, there are consequences to that, and the consequences are that one essentially annuls a whole series of rules that actually hold waste operators to account and ensure that there is a level playing field to ensure that the kind of cowboy behaviour about which some of the Senators are concerned does not happen. If we make a choice to annul this statutory instrument, we will actually facilitate operators that want to break the rules and we will not be able to hold them to account. That is the point I am making, and it is a valid point. I am not misleading anybody.

Regarding the issue of pay by weight, about which people and all parties and Independents have raised genuine concerns, whether members of the Anti-Austerity Alliance, members of People Before Profit, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party, Labour, whoever-----