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Dublin City Manager must listen to communities - Doolan

Published: 28 September, 2006

Dublin City Manager must listen to communities Sinn Féin's Dublin Environment Spokesperson & Representative for Dublin South East, Councillor Daithí Doolan, has called on Dublin's new City Manager to respect the democratic wishes of Dublin City Council and to abandon proposals for an incinerator for the Poolbeg Peninsula.

Speaking today after a meeting with Dublin City Manager, John Tierney, Cllr.
Doolan said:

" After meeting the new City Manager I congratulated him on his new appointment and I pressed home the need for him to support the wishes of the majority of City Councillors, and those that they represent, and scrap plans for an incinerator here in Dublin. Anything else undermines democracy and is totally unacceptable.''

Cllr. Doolan continued "I welcome the City Manger's commitment to maximising recycling within the City but rhetoric is not enough. We all understand that waste management is one of the greatest challenges facing Dublin but simply imposing incinerators on communities is not the solution. What Dublin needs is a commitment to a programme that aims to radically reduce the waste we generate, reuse that waste and integrate our recycling with any future plans for the city. To date this Council has wasted EUR10.5m on promoting an incinerator for the Poolbeg Peninsula that we do not want or indeed need. The consultants are making a lot of money out of our waste crisis but I do not see them providing any viable solutions for all the millions they receive. The City Manager must put an end to this scandal and stop spending millions of public money on a project that has no public support. This money should be diverted into tackling the cause of our waste crisis at source by investment in education, reduction and the recycling industry."


Cllr. Doolan ended by saying "If we are to solve the waste crisis facing this city we must do so in a confident, open, democratic way. That means communities must be at the centre of all solutions not the greedy consultants."