Vol. 501 No. 2
161 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Public Enterprise if her Department has employers' liability insurance to cover irradiation of staff issued with mobile phones in view of the findings of the effects from low intensity exposures in the Vienna EMF resolution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5635/99]
162 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Public Enterprise if her Department has public liability insurance which covers irradiation of staff and the general public from any mobile phone transmitters located on State property in view of the fact that, if the operating company ceases to exist, the liability may default to the landowner and in further view of the findings of the effects from low intensity exposures of the Vienna EMF resolution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5651/99]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 161 and 162 together.
My Department, in accordance with public financial procedures, does not have employers' or public liability insurance. With regard to the specific issue of insurance indemnification and mobile telephony, as I have stated before, I agree with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Enterprise and Transport which stated in its report on non-ionising microwave radiation emissions from communications masts in December 1998 that this is an issue for the licensed operators themselves to consider and, as such, I have no function in the matter.
