Inconvenient Truths: The ESRI (Economic and Social Research Institute) last month published a report which said that policy on Irish waste management and on incineration in particular, has “no underlying rationale” and is likely "to impose needless costs on the economy."  While the institute did not make a direct charge of gombeenism against the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley, Finfacts said it appeared that national waste policy was being dictated by the Minister's desire to thwart the plans of Dublin City Council to build a waste incinerator in his political constituency of Dublin South-East, on the site of the former Poolbeg power station. Today, the ESRI responds to criticism of its report. On Thursday, a day in advance of the ESRI's latest intervention on evolving waste management policy, Minister Gorrmley commissioned a high fee lawyer to carry out "an independent report in relation to the various risks and implications of the proposed incinerator to be located on the Poolbeg peninsula."