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Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Are we safe?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the result available to the witnesses online via their iPhones?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We can get a breakdown of that sponsorship and the different programmes funded under the heading of communications.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: A company called Yellowstone designed the EPA's annual report. Is that cost included in the figure for public relations as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I ask Ms Burke to send us a breakdown of those figures.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Connolly. I have some questions also. I echo Deputy Connolly's comments that it is a fine annual report. Representatives of many organisations appear before the committee and this is one of the better reports we have seen. I refer not just to the financial report but also the rest of the report which covers many areas. I can see that it takes a lot of work to get from the...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Perfect. Maybe an explanation could be provided the first time a term is used. This happens in other reports submitted to the committee. For example I note the line, "introduction to the role of Radiation Protection Officer (RPO)" in the report but if I was to see the term "RPO" for the first time 20 pages after that reference, I would not know what an RPO was.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am complimenting the quality of the report, which is very readable. From the committee's perspective, we often put a glossary into our reports. Members might understand the reports but not everybody does. Ms Burke might now explain what "aircrew" means. It is referred to on page 11 of the annual report. Will Ms Burke tell the committee in layman's English what "Control of aircrew...

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: This is a reference to airline crew.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does it refer to air stewards as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: The percentage of flights appears to have increased significantly.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: How many staff are covered by this research? How many air crew are we talking about?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps the witnesses will revert to me with a figure.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Are these 20,000 people in Ireland or with Irish-based airlines? Does it include staff such as Ryanair's staff abroad or is it the staff on every flight that comes into Ireland? Does the 20,000 figure apply only to staff operating in our airspace?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: We understand.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is a calculated figure rather than an accounted figure.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does that 20,000 figure include Ryanair staff throughout Europe who may never come to Ireland? Are figures available for the staff exposure that occurs in Irish airspace? Can that be calculated?

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: I know it is a small point but I ask Dr. Ryan to send us a note on that.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: When I do not understand a chart I ask a question.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Seán Fleming: Page 12 features a table on legal enforcement activity. The EPA had fines and costs awarded in the District Courts and the Circuit Courts totalling €390,074 in 2017. Are those fines payable to the EPA or to the courts?