Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Ms Laura Burke:

It is not that straightforward. In some instances, if there is an incident, for example, we may go straight to prosecution and then such a site may end up on the priority site list after that. It depends on the nature of the non-compliance, the severity of the non-compliance and if it is a case of non-compliance for sending in a report late or a case of non-compliance for discharging chemicals into water-----