FoI shows that Government is promoting incineration
Details revealed under Freedom of Information about Indaver’s lobbying of the Department of Environment prior to the expansion of its proposed incinerator in Duleek confirm that Dick Roche’s Department actively promotes incineration, despite his denial in a parliamentary reply to the Green Party before Christmas, said Party Chairman John Gormley TD today.
Deputy Gormley said that, “Mr Roche has refused to give me details of the public private partnership for the incinerator in Ringsend which he sanctioned: but he did say that his Department was not promoting the project. This latest information reveals that Mr Roche has bent over backwards to facilitate the introduction of incineration. It is official Government policy and his denials carry little weight - as do the protestations of his colleague, Michael McDowell, who still claims to be opposed to the incinerator in Ringsend. Minister McDowell cannot have it everyway. He must stand over his Government’s decision.”