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- Rent Certainty and Prevention of Homelessness Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: It is difficult to know where to begin with this issue. A secure warm family home should be a right and not a privilege to be granted or withheld by any government. I would see it as being a constitutional right and it should be a constitutional right. However, Members should look at the litany of horror that can be seen in this country. Almost 5,000 people are homeless and 90,000 people...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (1 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the deadline for compliance with Bord Bia regulations for dairy farmers. [42357/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (1 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: 596. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the chief medical officer will carry out a health impact assessment into hydraulic fracturing. [42657/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I thank the delegation from attending the meeting. It is a bit like déjà vu. I have so many questions that I will probably be guillotined.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: That will be fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: The next phase of the project involved people going on lands with equipment to do measurements. At what stage is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: It will not be done until next year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Who is overseeing the process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: If tenders have to be put out and people have to be assigned to various areas, who specifically will be leading out this phase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: What about CDM Smith's role in all of this and its independence? What is the role of Queen's University Belfast because I believe this committee was misled? What about the public health impact? What about the groundwater study done by the EPA three years ago? What about Lough Melvin? I want to share with our witnesses the political feel that I have gotten from talking to many Deputies...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Let us start with Queen's University Belfast, QUB. This committee was given a clear impression that Queen's University Belfast was an integral part of this research project when the EPA last appeared before the committee. We were never officially informed that there had been any change in the dynamic or relationship between QUB and the study project. On the contrary, a number of statements...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I will respond to that when we come back.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I had put a number of questions and the witnesses were going to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Would that not diminish the value of any report to which they give their tacit agreement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Does Mr. Lynott regard it as an academic, peer-reviewed paper if they are not sponsored by the university?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I understand that but can I take it the other universities involved in this study are operating under the same circumstances?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: So they will be reviewing each other's work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: What does "internal" mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Has anything gone for external review yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Are there overlaps between the internal and external panels?