Company ‘didn’t notice’ massive dump

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche yesterday questioned Roadstone’s denial that it had any knowledge of extensive illegal dumping on its land.

Mr Roche said he found it “very difficult to understand” how the company, which has never been prosecuted in relation to the discovery of a massive secret dump on its property at Blessington, Co Wicklow, could not have known about its existence.

“I can not understand how any significant landowner can have very significant dumping on their land without knowing, and I have to say, and I do not want to call anybody a liar, I find it very difficult to understand how anybody would not know what was going on,” he said in an interview on last night’s Prime Time on RTÉ.