Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Illegal Dumping: Discussion (Resumed)
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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It is not our role to be judge and jury. I welcome and support the independence and rigour of the EPA. What we have heard today backs up and validates what Mr. Seamus O'Loughlin said to the committee. As Deputy Dooley says, it is further justification of the good work that RTÉ did, in presenting some of his analysis. It is a dark day for the ESB, for a company which needs to have the highest of environmental standards. To have the State's Environmental Protection Agency issue such a judgment on just one example of what we have heard today is very serious for ESB.