Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I am familiar with all of those websites. The problem is that for residents, particularly in south Swords and in estates like Ridgewood, Boroimhe and River Valley - huge estates with large populations - there has been a huge increase in both the smell of aviation fuel and particulate matter being visible on sills, curtains and walls in these estates. The monitoring stations are all over the north of the county. They are not in the areas we are asking them to be. We are getting poor responses as to why they cannot put the monitoring in these estates where we are actually seeing and smelling the pollution. I ask the Minister to bear in mind that we are an airport community and airport people. We live next to an airport so we understand what to expect but this is over and above that. The confused nature of Fingal County Council and the EPA and the voluntary nature of the DAA's obligations in this regard means we are not getting enough regulation in this area. I think the Minister would want such regulation.

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