Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 October 2020

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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Is there a sense at a departmental level of the real scale of this problem now or its likely scale in the future? In County Meath, for example, cases recently have completed at the High Court. The expectation is there will be a responsibility to undergo remediation. It strikes me that this is a significant problem. Much of it is legacy. I wonder whether there has been an assessment of that issue at a departmental level.