Noel McCarthy (Cork East, Fine Gael)

My next question is for the EPA and it concerns the fact that we have a business that has constantly broken regulations.

I want to simplify this because we have a business that has constantly broken regulations and received constant calls from officers. How many times did Ms McDonnell say she has been there since this incident in North Cork Creameries? Just to simplify this, if you are playing a football match and a person commits a foul, you get a warning, then you get a yellow card, a red card and it then comes to suspensions. Where is the suspension here? If there are so many incidents happening, why has somebody not stepped in to enforce it because it has gone beyond a point where we can accept it any more? Something should have been done. Does the EPA take any responsibility for not acting on that? It is not linked to it but it is obviously a concern. That is what people are saying as well. They say if there are breaches of licences by someone, there obviously must be a check up.

It does not make sense how it was not really acted on and that there was no enforcement. That is the concern and that is what the public is saying out there. I am only passing it on and I mean no disrespect. I appreciate the creamery brings employment and so on but we must get things right. I again go back to the football match; if you break the laws, you suffer the consequences. Where is the suspension here?