Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

I will ask the Minister of State a succinct question rather than making a long statement. In her opening statement, she said that the Government carried out a comprehensive site investigation in 2004 to determine the levels of contamination at the site. Did that investigation give the full extent of the contamination or have we discovered something new either today in the newspaper or when the German company wrote to the subcontractors telling them that it had uncovered high levels of contamination, including chromium 6? Was that news to the Government or did it know about that in 2004 and the extent of the contamination?

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