Written answers
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Department of Justice and Equality
Nuclear Plants
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1032. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the visit by members of An Garda Síochána to the Sellafield nuclear facility in 2004; their findings; if the gardaí were invited or sought access in that instance; if there have been subsequent visits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56808/23]
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Garda authorities that the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary invited An Garda Síochána to visit the Sellafield Nuclear Facility in Cumbria, UK in 2004 to review aspects of the physical protection and policing arrangements in place at the site. A team from An Garda Síochána undertook the visit to the site on the 1st and 2nd of June 2004.
I am further advised that there were a number of subsequent visits by An Garda Síochána; the last of which was in 2017.
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