Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The committee that is meeting is engaging with Tipperary County Council, the EPA and the Department. It is discussing the specific issue of unexplained cattle deaths which, not to be alarmist, may or may not be related to the site. There may be other reasons involved. That is the main report for which we are waiting. The EPA is investigating the issue and at this point no specific cause has been identified. No further remediation works are envisaged until funding becomes available for the final phase of the project. A provision of €400,000 was made available in 2016 for land acquisition and contingencies that might have arisen from ongoing environmental monitoring designed to detect changes on the site. While this money was not required in 2016, the same contingency sum has been made available in 2017. Further provisions will be required to cover additional costs that may be required to be met.