Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

What is required is a speedy review and report on the implications of this fire. We need to know how the fire started and what was being stored in the plant. The EPA is the licensing authority. It knows what could have been stored in the plant. Many of these plants have been in place for many years when the regulation of waste disposal was non-existent. Any report should set out in plain language what the plant contained.

I was told there could be asbestos there but I am not sure. The report must be in plain language and there must be a public debate on how close these plants are to built-up areas and on the possibility of setting up a plant which could take this toxic waste, including chemicals.

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