Nuclear Safety.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 9 February 2005

Wednesday, 9 February 2005

Questions (68, 69)

Jack Wall

Question:

92 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent report of the working group of the BNFL stakeholder dialogue that found that hundreds of thousands of Irish people may be at risk if suicide bombers succeeded in attacking the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant; the action he intends to take arising from the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3919/05]

David Stanton

Question:

153 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the report by the UK Office for Civil Nuclear Safety that there are chronically inadequate resources to deal with a major emergency at Sellafield. [3984/05]

Written answers

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Mr. Roche)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 92 and 153 together.

I refer to the reply to Question No. 1366 of 26 January 2005.