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

I am not and never will be a Minister but if I was a Minister who commissioned a progress report and I received a two page document comprising 43 lines I would throw it back to the body charged with preparing it. It is a disgrace that such a document was presented as a progress report. It contains little or no substantive information regarding the progress of the investigation of a very dangerous method of extracting gas. I believe it is bluffing the Minister of State, the committee and members of the public in regard to what progress is actually being made. It makes no reference to the health impact assessment, which is a crucial part of any study of hydraulic fracturing. It is outrageous that the EPA would seek to present this to the Minister of State and the wider public as a progress report.

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