It is about time that the Public and the Paymasters for the Dublin Waste Treatment programme were told outright that the proposal offered at the time of the strategy writing was founded on outdated assumptions.

Now we have a better option and that is to convert the residual waste to a valuable fuel for motorists and a substitute for petrol namely ethanol.

There’ll be no gases emitted as the process is completely enclosed and thus No Chimneys and No Smoke and No Toxic Cancerous Gases emitted. All the products within the waste will either be collected [through recycling] or converted to saleable products the largest of which in terms of volume and value would be ethanol.

But nicely and even more to the point this fuel is made from waste products and not food crops. So here you have two benefits: treating waste in an environmentally and economical way, and making a valuable fuel in the process which would assist in taking the Country out of dependence on fossil fuels?

The same would equally be for Galway, the Midlands and elsewhere in Ireland be it the Republic or Northern Ireland or indeed the UK or World-Wide. But the benefits can be even better for Ireland as it would signal a real move to Green Credentials. Surly this must be an Election issue in Ireland? Didn’t the Minister for the Environment once claim…Incineration not whilst I am in Power?

Now raise it in the Election as a major issue. It is the only way to save the Public’s Taxes.