Let’s debate a burning issue

THE ESRI report commissioned by Dublin City Council (DCC) would appear to vindicate the recommendation of the council engineers and executive to proceed with plans for an incinerator at Poolbeg.

During the past two years I have repeatedly invited the DCC executive to engage in an open debate regarding the wisdom of spending more than €300m on a technology that is being rapidly outdated. Invariably they have refused.

Our views reflect what we are learning from work that our Carbolea Centre continues to carry out with support from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Natural Resources, Enterprise Ireland, the EPA and the EU.