James Bannon (Fine Gael)

As I said, we know that an appalling nuclear accident took place in 1957, shortly after the Sellafield plant opened. Important records about reprocessed material were routinely falsified over the years. Sellafield's main customers, Japan, Germany and Switzerland, have been frightened away as they have learned that Sellafield suffers from lax safety standards, as well as what is known among nuclear inspectors as "management failure". Last year, I, unlike Senator Ross, who would sit on the sidelines and make comments, visited Sellafield.