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
Mr. Kenny Jacobs:
The EPA is the responsible authority for PFAS and all chemicals like that. There are 97 PFAS sites in Ireland. It is important that everybody remembers that. We have worked closely with the EPA since we found trace elements of PFAS. We removed them from Dublin. We got ahead of this and worked in close conjunction with the EPA, Fingal County Council and everybody else to remove the PFAS. There are trace levels of PFAS in the drinking water but that is because it is provided by Uisce Éireann. That is the same for anyone living in Dublin 4, Dublin 18 or any other part of Dublin. We have a really good plan on identifying and removing PFAS levels in close conjunction with the EPA, which is the competent authority.
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