Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

-----but some of that short-term gain has been at the expense of long-term, seriously worrying health and environmental damage. I am concerned that the EPA might spend time on a project such as this when the Minister of State's Department ignores the potential to transform our economy through the development of wind and wave energy. The Minister of State does not give anything like the same amount of resources to those energy sources.

There is scientific information about toxic substances in the air, the soil, the water and damage to underground water tables, so I do not see why the Minister for State must undertake further studies. The information is available but the Minister of State is not listening to it.

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