Would the Minister acknowledge that the integration of waste management includes the necessity not only for recycling schemes but for ensuring that toxic wastes are properly disposed of? In that context, what steps are the Minister's Department taking pursuant to the Byrne-Ó Cléirigh report, which was made available to this House on 8 February 1988, in the context of the recommendations made in that report with regard to the preliminary design and engineering steps that should be taken so as to assess the feasibility of an incineration plan for the disposal of toxic waste?

Secondly, what steps will his Department be taking in the future to monitor the dumping of waste, including toxic waste, in the light of the considerable concern arising from that report that there are toxic wastes being dumped in this country that are untraceable? Nobody knows where some of the toxic waste that we are producing is going. If it is not traced——

That is a very long question, Deputy Shatter.

——if it is not identified we will, in effect, have an environmental time bomb ticking away which will eventually go off, if the necessary identification of such dumping sites——

The Deputy is tending to make a speech. Please desist. This is Question Time.

Deputy Shatter uses some of the language that I have used myself.

The same degree of vagueness.

I think that he wins the prize there. I am concerned about these matters. That is why I commissioned the feasibility study to which the Deputy refers?

What is the Minister doing about that?

We are following up on that very seriously. We are talking to the various interested parties who are willing to become involved in providing such a facility. There is a lot of work to be done in that regard and as to how it should be funded. However, it is a priority and that is why I initiated it in the first place. We will obviously give it very close consideration over a period of time. Nobody wants to see toxic or haxardous waste disposed of in an improper way and we must take note of the situation which will arise in a number of years when we will have to get rid of our own waste. The subject matter of the question was recycling and I am particularly anxious that there should be more activity in that area as we are very far behind Europe. For that reason I persuaded my colleagues to allow this small amount of money in this year's budget to give a good start to those who might be interested.