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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Ms Burke has already given details regarding issues with inspections to Deputy Catherine Murphy. I am going to park that issue for the moment other than to state that Ms Burke referred to a "thorough investigation". I cannot judge that because I am coming late to this. I have read about it, however, and I have serious concerns about the repeated loss of samples that were given. I will leave it at that.

Certainly, when I looked at the loss of samples, and I took some time to do some research on it, there were serious concerns about how that investigation was handled. However, that is for another day outside this committee.