Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Submissions (Resumed): The Environmental Pillar

2:00 pm

Ms Mindy O'Brien:

No, it would not. As I understand it, the regulation of quarries is very light-handed and is done by local authorities. There is supposed to be a register of quarries. The EPA has a list but there are no data on each quarry in terms of how much it produces and so forth. This is something we need to examine. I am not an expert on pyrite but quarries certainly merit further investigation.

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