EU’s ‘incredulity’ at amount of environmental failures here

THE Government is due to be roundly condemned by the European Parliament for its failures to provide clean water and modern waste management and for deciding to locate the new M3 motorway so close to Tara.

The damning report on the country’s failures in relation to water, waste, pollution and transport will be discussed by MEPs next month and follows a three-day, fact-finding visit by MEPs to Ireland last month.

It expresses incredulity at many of the situations they found on foot of complaints from Irish citizens and says that the European Commission should investigate many of the failures.