I wish everybody a very happy new year. May all their gods go with them, in whatever way they come in the next few months.

I support Senator John Whelan. It is interesting that it is Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Independent Members who are coming together on this side of the House to find out how we can boil town-wide tankers of used oil in Portlaoise, the smell of which has a huge effect on health, without getting an answer from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. I am quoting the national broadcaster, but the most interesting aspect of the documentary was that the EPA had made the weakest defence I had ever come across, in trying to tell us what it was, why it was like that and whether it was good, bad or indifferent. It was so weak that one would despair.

It is interesting because when I came into this House as a young buck, and much thinner, I really thought that things happened much faster but one learns in politics that it takes a long time to bring about change and we accept that. Senator John Whelan spent two years examining and bringing forward reports on this issue, yet there has been an impasse. I would like the Minister to tell us - the Leader might facilitate us in this regard - where exactly this report is, what it states and why we have had such weakness from the EPA at a time when we are all talking about climate change, the effect of atmosphere on water and the need for cleanliness in our atmosphere for health regarding the explanations from companies such as this one previously fined for causing such pollution. I have to agree with Senator John Whelan in this regard.