Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Excellent work is being done in the area of smoky fuels by this Government. We really are turning a corner there but we are not looking closely enough at the air quality issue due to traffic. The analysis in the EPA report simply is not there and it needs to be there to instill confidence in the population that this is being monitored properly. That does not come from the EPA report with respect to traffic air quality. It is a very serious issue. We need to apply as much rigour to the traffic air quality issue as we have done to that of smoky fuels. Will the Minister of State take these concerns back and look at this in more detail? I do not believe it is appropriate that we would cease the roll-out of air quality monitoring as it relates to traffic at this point. There is a lot more work to do.

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