Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I both agree and disagree with Ms Burke. We were doing things very well in Galway city but the official response was not good. It was not an example of not in my back yard, NIMBY, syndrome. We showed that recycling was possible when all of the engineers and consultants were telling us it was not possible. Let us return to the specific example of the landfill in east Galway, which is referred to on page 92 of the document.