Results 81-100 of 2,343 for speaker:Michael Colreavy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Are the same agencies involved in the internal and external reviews?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I will probably need a little more information on that one. I continue to be unclear on it. Can we go back briefly to the next phase of the work? We are not talking about this year but sometime next year. Will people who will be going onto lands have a legal right to enter onto the land without the landowner's permission?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: That is not my question. Will they have the legal right to enter the lands of landowners who do not give them permission to do so? Do they have that legal right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Will there be a question of payment to the landowners?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Surely it would impact on the project budget.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Has it been quantified yet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Budgetary control must be interesting on the project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: How much is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Is there an overall budget for the project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Will there be other supplementary tenders?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Does Mr. Lynott understand my concerns and those of the committee and the public that a significant change to what was stated about Queen's University's role in the project was not notified to us but was unearthed only on foot of a freedom of information request made by an organisation concerned about fracking in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Companies such as CDM Smith will do work we assumed would be done by QUB.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Peripherally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: Many of them have connections with the oil and gas industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: It is a statement of fact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I said "many" of them. Mr. Lynott is aware of the companies to which I refer. It is small wonder the public have concerns about its independence and that the committee finds it hard to have confidence in a project in which significant changes have been made. But for the good work done by the groups studying it, we would not have known to ask the question. The change should have been made...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: I would have expected a significant change such as this to be notified. I ask the EPA to notify the committee if there are further significant changes to the composition or work arrangements which have not been notified to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: That is not the point. The point is we did not have the information to ask the question. If there is a significant change to the composition of the project team or the roles or responsibilities of the team members, the committee should be made aware of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: While the committee would not have discussed the particular point, I imagine it would believe it was significant that information given to it had changed and that it should be have been made aware of it. If it was important enough for it to ask in the first place, any change in the response should also have been notified to it. We do not have much information on the public health impact....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Unconventional Gas Exploration and Extraction: Environmental Protection Agency (2 Dec 2015)
Michael Colreavy: There was a lot of public confusion about that because people understood there was going to be a health impact assessment as part of this study. I understand Mr. Lynott has clarified that, which is on the record. Can I move to the groundwater study that was conducted by the EPA, perhaps three years ago?