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:

I would say that as part of the assessment of the environmental and health risk, one would have to look at the source, the pathway and the receptor. As part of that one would look at mitigation measures, some may be successful, some may not. I would assume that the research would look at the success or otherwise of mitigation factors that have been applied in other countries.