Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The only crisis that arose there was the crisis on the Wednesday when it occurred in Dublin, as I told Deputy Broughan. The people around the country were dealing with it quite adequately up to that point in time.

Deputy O'Dowd asked about an incident or accident, and what criteria would be put in place if at some stage in the future we had a nuclear industry in Ireland. That is something that would have to be considered. It is hypothetical, as the Deputy stated. I cannot answer his question because people would need to know what exactly we were talking about, whether it was an industry, a power station or whatever. However, all of that would have to be dealt with the IEA, EISs, etc., during the course of the planning process.

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