Roche under fire over planned Viking site committee

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche is under fire for failing to appoint a representative of the Save Viking Waterford Action Group to a planned new strategic management committee on the future of the Woodstown site.

Roche under fire over planned Viking site committee
Mon, 21 Nov, 2005 - 00:00
Neans McSweeney, South-East Correspondent

The minister announced his proposals last May to establish the new committee.

But chairman of the action group Dr Catherine Swift claimed this had not progressed any further.

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