Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Dr. Tom Ryan:

It is an estimate based on the average concentration in people's houses around the country, the research and surveys we have done over the years and models that have been developed internationally. It is an estimate. It would not be generally possible to identify a particular cancer that was induced from radon.