Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

They were. There are always a set of circumstances that might lead to a situation where there is a temporary loss but they have a suite of mechanisms in place that if something were to happen, here is what we do in terms of pre-planning, dealing with the situation and how we respond to the outcome of that. The CEO was quite clear in his statement on 5 October at the committee that he did not believe there would be any blackouts, to use that term, over the coming winter.