Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government

Radiological Protection (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage

11:40 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have some concerns about the Minister's ability to veto certain licensing decisions. I am not referring to a current Minister but we do not know who the Minister will be in future. If a loophole is left without being closed off, it can become an opportunity, albeit an unintended one. Could the Minister veto certain EPA decisions on nuclear material licences? It appears that the Minister, rather than the RPII, has the ultimate responsibility.

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