McDowell must fulfil election promise and stop incinerator
Speaking at an anti-incineration march in Ringsend, Co. Dublin today, Green Party Chairman John Gormley TD said, “At the last election, Michael McDowell said he would stop the Ringsend incinerator if elected to government. Since his elevation to the Justice portfolio he has done nothing to fulfil this promise.
“In fact, just before Christmas the Government gave the go-ahead for a public private partnership for the incinerator on the Poolbeg peninsula. Michael McDowell and his government colleagues had the opportunity to stop the incinerator in 2002 when the Green Party proposed the waste amendment bill. But they voted it down.
“We will give Minister McDowell another opportunity shortly to vote on this issue when we present another private members’ bill. We will await his response with interest,” concluded Deputy Gormley.