Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 12, to delete lines 25 and 26 and substitute the following:" 'radiological protection" means the prevention, limitation, risk-reduction, elimination, abatement or reduction of the harmful effects of ionising radiation;".".

This amendment seeks to add "risk-reduction" to the definition of "radiological protection" that is inserted by the Bill into the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992. The wording is intended to bring clarity to the mission of the EPA in respect of the protection of the population from nuclear radiation. It is essentially intended as a safety valve in the form of a defined function for the agency of identifying risk factors. I accept that this function may be implicit in the range of functions already provided for in the Bill.

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