Ministers concede incinerator site inappropriate

TWO Government ministers conceded yesterday that the proposed site for the State’s first €93m toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy in County Cork was “inappropriate.”

Defence Minister Willie O'Dea said the decision to site a toxic waste incinerator near the State's naval base at Haulbowline and large tracts of residential housing seemed "very strange."

On his first visit to Haulbowline as Defence Minister, Mr O'Dea said: "The location seems utterly inappropriate is there no other suitable location?"