Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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In terms of air quality, the documents state that the ambition is to significantly increase the availability of local real-time air quality. What sort of monitoring do we have throughout the country at the moment? If a radiological incident happens in Portlaoise, how would the EPA monitor this and how quickly could it say that the wind is blowing in a certain direction? Where is the EPA with regard to local air quality monitoring?