Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government having jurisdiction of another aspect of the project regarding health, the project itself and the concerns of the communities, the two Departments should be on song and completely together. With regard the statement that was issued on Tuesday, it should have been announced that one Department was commissioning the report and the other Department was parallel with it, and not that they will do something.

The concerns that people have about health, the visual impact and destruction of their communities are well founded. Since the project was announced it has generated a large amount of fear. At this late stage the two Departments should say that they shall take the project and do it as one and not say that one Department may update the 2007 report or whatever. That information gives more cause for concern within communities.

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