The Deputy is intermingling a lot of different matters. Professor Gardiner's report did not deal with discharges into the Irish Sea; it referred to excessive doses of radiation that workers in the Sellafield plant were exposed to and the consequent medical effect on them. His findings are being examined and they will be closely examined here. They raise very serious questions about how much we know, or do not know, about the effect of nuclear energy and the radiation from it. The Deputy knows there has been a very dramatic fall off in the discharges into the Irish Sea.
The point at issue in regard to taking a legal case remains. Until such time that I can be satisfied a case can be taken, and that there is a case to answer in law, I would have no business taking such a case. I have explained that here previously. Because I state the factual position, there is the political temptation to turn it around, as if I was not taking as strong a stand as anybody else on Sellafield, which of course is just not true. If Deputy Bruton or anybody else can show me how we can successfully bring a case against the Sellafield authorities or against British Nuclear Fuels Limited, and if the Attorney General here is satisfied. I would be the first to request the Government to take appropriate action.