Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA

1:10 pm

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to discuss PFAS. I am my party's environmental spokesperson. Mr. Jacobs referenced the DAA's environmental plans. It was reported that there were PFAS on site in 2016 and were buried on site. Dublin Airport sits within a wider environment in Dublin, and there are SPAs, SCAs and the impact on water bodies. How are PFAS managed on site? What is the responsible authority? Is it the DAA or the EPA? How is that overseen? It does not help that people read in German publications that PFAS are being managed in the environs of Dublin Airport and not within statutory authorities.

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