Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017
9:00 am
Ms Laura Burke:
It is, and it is an extremely serious issue. Before the EPA the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, RPII, highlighted it for many years. It is a big concern that people might not be aware of, so it spent many years highlighting the issue of radon. We took that on following the merger of the EPA and the RPII. We have active campaigns to highlight the issue to people. There is a national radon control strategy, which is an all-of-Government strategy. It has just reached the end of its first phase and the next phase is being developed. It looks at what actions can be taken. Some of the actions require visiting individual houses and doing measurements. First, however, there is identifying the areas that are most vulnerable, then there is promoting in those areas-----
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