We need a radical overhaul of waste policy

THANK God for the EU and its environmental regulations - I really believe that we would be living in a cesspit without them.

Successive Irish governments have totally and abjectly failed to make any concerted planned provision for the waste crisis which has been building in this country for decades and particularly for the past 10 years.

Despite all the fine words and strategic plans, at the 11th hour the present Government has foisted on us a plan to build a series of incinerators around the country with the inevitable result that we will all be subjected to increased concentrations of one of the most subtle, toxic, persistent, and bio-accumulative substances known to man, dioxins.