John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

Is the Minister aware that more than 200 people die every year in Ireland from lung cancers that can be attributed directly to radon gas? Would it not make sense, in the circumstances, to waive the fee being charged for one of these kits? It has gone up from €50 to €54 and, according to my calculations, it would cost a mere €5 million to test the 90,000 homes directly affected. This would be a sensible health measure to take, aside altogether from a sensible environmental measure. Has the Minister given this any consideration? In my view people are dying from this unnecessarily.

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