Ms Laura Burke:

Regarding the maps, it is back to science and evidence. It is still necessary to update those, and that is one thing we are doing. The national radon control strategy identifies roles for a number of bodies. On what we are doing, first it involved things such as conveyancing and ensuring that radon is part of conveyancing so that if somebody is moving house the person can confirm that a radon survey has been carried out. Also, one of the specific actions we did was a pilot project last year that looked at offering grants for people to support them. First, one must do the measurement in one's area, but we identified that even where people had identified high levels of radon in their home, getting them to translate that into action and do the work was not as high as we would like. We did a pilot project offering not only the testing but also grants for remediation. We are now assessing the results of that to see if there are any lessons to push people further. We are also looking at actions around guidance for builders and requirements for new builds. There are actions by different parties and the EPA is one of them. Our role is to pull it all together and to promote and push those various actions.