Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Hindsight is a great thing. Knowing that the ESB had not spent the money, and I take Dr. McGowan's point that a recession occurred, does he feel that CRU has adequate environmental expertise in house to be able to assess such spending and to understand the environmental impact of leaks like this so that when it sees that capital investment has not been made to fix these leaks there is somebody in house who will raise a red flag and say that there was a recession but this has a serious environmental impact? Does the CRU have staff in house with that expertise and environmental knowledge that it is necessary to bring to bear when it is giving the go-ahead in respect of a capital spend and then seeing that it is not spent?