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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?

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

Seán Fleming: That is collected by the Courts Service?

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

Seán Fleming: Is the EPA not involved in collection thereafter?

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

Seán Fleming: I ask that because I submitted a parliamentary question this week asking about the number of fines or prosecutions taken to court by the EPA. The Minister replied that this was not the responsibility of the Dáil. I have asked this question across all public bodies. The Courts Service will come before the committee in a few weeks and we want to see where fines imposed on behalf of...

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

Seán Fleming: The EPA has a role in river basin management plans in respect of water quality. I am aware that there are seven or eight river basin management plans in place. In my area the rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir go into one area. I am sure the River Shannon and the River Liffey have similar plans. From the EPA's perspective, which area's management plan poses the most difficulty with regard to...

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

Seán Fleming: I do not need it off the top of Ms Burke's head. There was a good plan in place a few years ago which involved flooding more than anything. There were regional plans for the three rivers I mentioned and there were not that many because every river ends up in the sea through some source.

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

Seán Fleming: Those plans were set aside during the Irish Water issue so there was one plan for one national water agency. The regional river basin management plans were a good idea because they cover a large area and I would hate it if we no longer got information on the river basin catchment area. Ms Burke might come back and update the committee on that. I do not have any specific issue.

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

Seán Fleming: Some of this cannot be done at local authority level. That is why we have the river basin catchment areas.

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

Seán Fleming: The rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir cover half of south Leinster. What happens in Laois affects what happens in Kilkenny and Waterford so it is not a function that is specific to a local authority. Rivers flow thorough various local authorities and that is the whole purpose of regional plans. The regional basis was more holistic. They can do what they like in Waterford, but if they are...

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

Seán Fleming: Yes, but those downstream are affected by whatever happens further upstream. I am a fan of the catchment areas because they include the full context of the entire river basin rather than a local authority point of view.