Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We touched on this point earlier because we did not realise that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle would do such an effective job chairing this debate as to bring us to this point.

I am satisfied to hear what the Minister of State says but unfortunately he did not say "yes, I will". There are people in other jurisdictions who say their water has been damaged, there has been gas build-up in their houses, they are not happy with this thing and the gas companies are trying to buy their silence. They are jumping up and down, as it were, and saying fracking has damaged them. Will the Minister of State ask the EPA to ensure the views of such people are incorporated into the environmental impact study? If they are not, nobody in the report will have any credibility because those people will still jump up and down and shout loudly that they were damaged by hydraulic fracturing but no one ever asked them about it.

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