Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency

9:30 am

Mr. Dara Lynott:

It has not started. It will not start until the first phase of the project has been finished. Basically, the first phase would have involved identification of groundwater and surface water issues. On the basis of that, it will determine how many groundwater wells there will be and where. We have not finished the first phase. We anticipate finishing it in the next month or so. Following on from that, the last action will be to determine the scope of work for putting in groundwater wells and seismic testing in the area.