Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Obviously, the EPA and Fingal County Council come into play here. Fingal County Council is not under the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts. My experience with the EPA is that there is a lot of paper-based compliance rather than hands-on compliance. Often, people feel that with the local authority, there is a bit of passing of the buck going on. In my experience, that happens quite a bit. I am not saying the work of the EPA is unimportant in gathering data, but it tends to be desk-based. Maybe we should write to it as well, given that it is under the remit of the committee.