Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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I said "many" of them. Mr. Lynott is aware of the companies to which I refer. It is small wonder the public have concerns about its independence and that the committee finds it hard to have confidence in a project in which significant changes have been made. But for the good work done by the groups studying it, we would not have known to ask the question. The change should have been made known to us. I am not saying Mr. Lynott misled the committee. At the last committee meeting he described precisely the position. However, there was a significant change and the committee was not advised of it. An anti-fracking group did the good work and obtained the information under freedom of information legislation, which prompted us to ask the question this time and Mr. Lynott answered it. Without the freedom of information request, we would not have known to ask the question. That is not good.