Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Does the Minister agree that in all the evaluations listed, nowhere has proof been presented that an on-shore pipeline for untreated gas is safe floating in a bog, which will be the position with the nine kilometre pipeline? Why does the Department allow a situation where houses are within 70 metres of that pipeline? That would be the standard if this was a refined gas pipeline but, given that barometric pressure can be four times that in a refined gas pipeline, the distance to any house from that potentially unsafe pipeline should be at least 250 metres. Can anyone show me proof that such a pipeline floating in a bog is safe?

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