Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 527: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the location of radioactive waste that has been stored on Rocky Island, near Ringaskiddy, County Cork; the cost of such removal and who has carried this cost. [27420/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I assume that the question refers to radioactive material which was stored on Rocky Island and which was exported to the US in March 2004. The radioactive material had been detected in some supplies of radioactively contaminated scrap steel delivered to the Irish Ispat steel plant in Haulbowline during the 1990s. Following detection, the radioactive content was removed and stored in the Irish Ispat store at Rocky Island.

The radioactive material was subsequently exported to the US in March 2004, the cost of which was borne by the Irish Ispat Liquidator. The cost of this was a matter for the liquidator of Irish Ispat. I understand from the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland that there is no residual radioactive contamination following the export of the material to the U.S.