Results 18,101-18,120 of 32,978 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Cramp usually relates to paralysis.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What overall amount of money has been ring-fenced?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I have that figure written down here and that is what we informed it was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What does the parental company guarantee mean if the company does not comply?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine. Various things are done and there are criteria. Once the parental company guarantee has been put in place, does it change over time? Does the EPA have a panel of financial experts and is the parental company guarantee assessment updated regularly? I welcome that the total ring-fenced has gone up but why did it change from €14 million to €28 million in the two...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The €14 million is in respect of remediation on-site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is that €14 million of the €28 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The rest is a parental company guarantee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am going to use this as an example. Is there independent monitoring of that money? Does the EPA monitor it or does it get someone else to do that? There was a reference to modelling. Does someone go out, unannounced, and carry out regular inspections or what happens?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How many inspections took place overall in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They were unannounced inspections.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Ms Burke has already given details regarding issues with inspections to Deputy Catherine Murphy. I am going to park that issue for the moment other than to state that Ms Burke referred to a "thorough investigation". I cannot judge that because I am coming late to this. I have read about it, however, and I have serious concerns about the repeated loss of samples that were given. I will...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Perhaps.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand and appreciate that. Ms Burke has gone through that and set it out for me but she said in response to Deputy Catherine Murphy that there was a thorough, multi-agency investigation and conclusions. I cannot agree with that, although that is a matter for another day outside this committee, from what I have read and because of the samples going missing, among many other things....
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I will move away from An Bord Pleanála and refer to the guidelines. I refer to table 4 of the EPA's wastewater treatment manual on treatment systems for small communities. I am asking about the general issue. Those guidelines are from 1999 and are on treatment systems for small communities, business, leisure centres and hotels. When building a water treatment plant near those...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is right - a population in excess of 161.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is interesting and I am open to that. I am not an expert but I live beside a sewage treatment plant so I am very familiar with odours. Perhaps the EPA can look at that. It is the document residents look at and must quote, and it is from 1999.
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: With regard to radon, page 13 of the briefing report states that approximately 300 cases of lung cancer in Ireland every year are linked to the radioactive gas radon. That is from the EPA's research completed in 2018. It states that accumulation of radon in homes is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking and approximately 500 people are living in homes with radon...
- Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That identification has been done. In Galway we have seen the maps with the red spots and the high spots. What is happening with regard to the steps? What are the EPA's recommendations? Is it the responsibility of the EPA or the local authority?