Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 264: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the proposed incinerator at Poolbeg, Dublin 4; if the project will be abandoned. [7884/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The waste to energy plant proposed to be located at Poolbeg is being procured as a public private partnership by Dublin City Council acting on behalf of the four Dublin local authorities, and within the framework of the statutory regional waste management plan. Dublin City Council has informed my Department that the selected service provider for the project has been seeking significant changes in the financial and commercial terms originally agreed. This matter is I understand the subject of continuing negotiations between the Council and the prospective service provider, and I am not in a position to comment further on it at this stage. The applications for planning permission to An Bord Pleanala, and for a waste licence to the EPA, are sponsored by Dublin City Council, not the service provider, and are being maintained.