Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Ms Laura Burke:

There would be a combination of issues.

When I say our compliance investigation is open, that means we are actively considering actions such as prosecution for non-compliance with our licence. Deputy Connolly has spoken about those eight sites. About 46% of complaints will come from those small numbers of sites. We are looking at those to see if there are compliance issues that need to be escalated.