Incinerator proposal ‘should be left to State’

THE company planning to build the country’s first toxic waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Co Cork yesterday said Defence Minister Willie O’Dea should leave the matter to the State and judicial agencies responsible for it.

Indaver Ireland was responding to Mr O’Dea’s statement that the proposed site for the €93 million toxic waste incinerator seemed “inappropriate”.

Indaver Ireland general manager John Ahern said Mr O’Dea was entitled to his opinion but a series of State agencies had responsibility for dealing with the planning aspect of the proposal.