Brian Stanley TD, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on the Environment has welcomed the decision by Dublin City Council to abandon plans to build a waste incinerator at Poolbeg. He also called on the City Manager Eoin Keegan to withdraw what Deputy Stanley claims is a spurious threat that scrapping the plan will cost €150 million.

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Deputy Stanley said: "I am sure that residents of Dublin will welcome this decision. The failed project has already cost €100 million since it was first proposed in 1997. Now the City Manager is claiming that it will cost a further €150 million on the basis of some spurious 'letter of comfort' that no-one has seen. He must withdraw that threat."

(CD)