Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

He is open to providing information and giving whatever answers he can, in response to residents' questions, based on the information available. As I said, the action taken by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, in terminating the contract of the contractor involved in unauthorised works, has been endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency. One would hope people could take confidence from the fact that such an independent agency is in agreement with the Department's actions. The Department is preparing a report on legacy issues which have affected the site since the 1930s and hopes to be in a position to submit to the Government a comprehensive appraisal of the best way of remediating the site. That initiative has been taken by the Minister, rather than by any of his predecessors.

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