The relative powerless of the Green Party in Government is illustrated by its capitulation on co-location and on incineration.
The following is taken from the Green Party policy on waste:
“In Government the Green Party will place a moratorium on the incineration of waste”.
Yet the Greens agreed a Programme for Government with FF, which did not preclude incineration.
It is risible to listen to John Gormley articulating an anti incineration policy. He is a member of a Government, which has incineration as one of the key planks of its environmental policy. John Gormley realises quite well that the era of incineration is nigh thanks to the failure of his party in its negotiations with FF. In October he said that Ireland required no more than two incinerators to deal with waste, which cannot be recycled or processed, rather than the eight that are currently planned.
An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin. If the Green Party had insisted on the ditching of incineration - as a key precondition of its participation in government -residents of Dublin SE would not face an uncertain future. The Green Party has dispensed with many of its core principles to secure seats at the cabinet table. It has lost its way.
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What is risible is your simplistic idea of how the planning system operates.
The Minister for Local Government cannot under any circumstance intervene in the planning process. Anyone with a shred of interest in this matter would know this.
Gormley has been one of the local politicans that has always supported us, the residents, in our cause against this proposal, when other politicans flagged. After meeting him recently at a res ass meeting I am sure that he will do all he can to support us into the future.
But in reality, at this stage, it will be us residents against DCC and their big business friends.
The following is taken from the Green Party policy on waste:
“In Government the Green Party will place a moratorium on the incineration of waste”. Where is the moratorium? FF/PD policy has prevailed. See: Green Party Website
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