Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 July 2003
Nuclear Safety: Motion.
I put this suggestion to the British-Irish Interparliamentary Body and colleagues there supported it. I also put it to the Government which I understand is supporting the amendment to the motion, for which I thank it. It is time for the British Government to deliver on this issue. The British-Irish Council, which is still in place despite the breakdown of the Northern Ireland institutions, will have its next plenary council meeting in December. Before December there will be a meeting of environment Ministers. I want this issue addressed by our Government and ask it to put this proposal, with which Mr. Askew has no difficulty, to the British Government. There is international precedent for it because the International Atomic Energy Agency is there. I want our authority based at Sellafield on a permanent basis. That is progress we could make in the short term and I ask the British Government to agree.
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