Government accused of hiding problem to avoid huge costs

THE Government has been accused of hiding the problem of toxic waste buried at the Irish steel site in Cork harbour because they did not want to pay the high cost of the clean up operation.

Government accused of hiding problem to avoid huge costs

Yesterday’s Irish Examiner revealed that the Department of the Environment had told a sub-contracting firm involved in cleaning up the site to “cap” lagoons containing toxic waste, rather than removing 500,000 tonnes of dangerous material.

Local Labour TD, Sean Sherlock told the Dáil last night that the department’s action was motivated by the estimated €300 million to fully clean up the site

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