Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental Protection Agency

11:00 am

Photo of Michael MoynihanMichael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. My colleagues have a personal and in-depth knowledge of issues, particularly in Leitrim. This is a fundamental report and study. Every single aspect has to be adjudicated on. It cannot be possible for anybody to find that a part is missing in terms of underground water, health or whatever is the issue. There is genuine concern that those who have an input into the report may have a biased view. That view must be dispelled in whatever way is possible. The report, which will be in place for generations, must be one million per cent trusted, without question from any sector, because the concerns that people from Leitrim and elsewhere have expressed to me must be addressed. Every aspect has to be taken into account because this is a fundamental report.

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