Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

While I share some of the Senator's concerns, there is a need to be as prescriptive as possible in the safety framework. The more discretion we allow to overshoot deadlines and guidelines the greater the risk factor. All Members remember what happened at the Whiddy Island oil refinery in Bantry Bay in 1979. Senator Michael McCarthy may be too young to remember but he will certainly know about it.