I am very concerned that the EPA and Department of environment officials who visited one of the most toxic nuclear sites in the world believe there are "no significant matters" that should cause concern for Ireland. This was their response to a Guardian newspaper report this week which cited crumbling buildings, cracks worsening in a reservoir of toxic radioactive sludge, and the ongoing leakage of a soup of radioactive magnesium alloy filings dissolved in water, which is likely to continue until 2050. The exposé also states that many of these revelations are being swept firmly under the rug. What steps will be taken to protect the Irish public and how will the Government ensure that the British Government will act before the likely inevitable disaster happens, given that Sellafield holds five times the amount of radioactive material that Chernobyl held?

We have not heard about Sellafield in a long time.

I went to school right on the Irish Sea in Greystones and high radioactive levels from Sellafield were being recorded when I was a teenager. It is a matter that is close to my heart. I will raise it with the Tánaiste and ask him to engage with the UK on it in light of the report cited by Deputy Ó Snodaigh.