Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Ms Laura Burke:

-----and it does come back to communications. One of the things we have looked at, certainly in recent years, in the context of communications is rather than saying, for example, that wastewater treatment or air quality is compliant or non-compliant with a directive, we should explain the purpose of the directive around protecting human health and the environment. Otherwise, we are blaming the EU without explaining the reason.