Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion

Photo of Pádraig Mac LochlainnPádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Chair uses the phrase "mica" and refers to a "mica crisis" but what we are starting to understand in Donegal anyway is that the chief offender is pyrrotite, based on the emerging evidence.

This is a question for Ms Larkin. How can it be that the NSAI came forward with IS 465 but did not allow for pyrrotite to be considered in terms of forming a prognosis cure to what has emerged?

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