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Wed 02 Feb 2010Council paid €125,000 for ESRI report
Dublin City Council paid almost €125,000 for the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) report which criticises Minister for the Environment John Gormley's policies on incineration, it has emerged.
Dublin city manager John Tierney told an Oireachtas environment committee that the council had paid the ESRI €103,000 plus vat for the report which found "no underlying rationale" for Mr Gormley's position on incineration and said the international review of waste policy he commissioned was "severely flawed".
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