Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress with the report on the potential health effects of electromagnetic fields; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19067/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department has commissioned a study to review and report on international developments on the potential health effects of electro-magnetic fields. This study will examine international developments in non-ionising radiation (NIR) and electromagnetic fields (EMF) research, which have taken place since publication in 2007 of a report by the then Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, entitled Health Effects of Electromagnetic Fields.

Representatives from a number of Departments, together with national and international experts, are currently overseeing the study which is being undertaken by RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. It is expected that the report will be completed in thenear future and will be published soon thereafter.