Mary Ann O'Brien (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----yet nothing has been done, but everyone who works high up in the EPA enjoys total immunity. This has to stop. The Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, in her closing speech to the debate on that Bill, stated "I can assure and inform Senator O'Brien that the Minister has confirmed to me that the Department will expedite the completion of the current review and a comprehensive report on this subject will be presented before the Houses of the Oireachtas within 90 days". Ninety days from the commencement of that Act was 4 November 2015 and today is 13 January 2016. I received a letter from the Minister's Department on 30 November stating that final edits to the draft report are being made and the Minister, Deputy Kelly, will be reviewing it in the coming days. The Minister needs to come in to the House and lay that report before us. The issue of why the EPA has such immunity needs to be raised in order that we can have legal conversations, if necessary, about it.