Data mystery at end of Indaver hearing

Why some of the data included as part of Indaver Ireland’s application to build an incinerator in Ringaskiddy appears identical to a 2008 application by another company for an entirely different facility in Co Meath remained a mystery yesterday on the final day of an oral hearing into the proposed project.

The data in question relates to an analysis of soil samples collected at 12 different locations, mainly in the Cork Harbour Area, with the aim of determining background dioxin concentration levels. However, the conclusions reached did not correspond to the model used to measure them, according to Green Party member and senior lecturer in physiology at UCC, Gordon Reid.

In fact, Dr Reid said dioxin tables which purport to be modelled using 2015 soil samples are instead a carbon copy of the dioxin tables submitted with Indaver’s 2008 Ringaskiddy application and relate to values from soil samples taken at that time. They were also the same as dioxin tables submitted to An Bord Pleanála as part of a 2008 application by College Proteins Ltd to build an incinerator in Nobber, Co Meath.