Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
QUESTION NO: 129
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the State Claims Agency did not seek assistance from the Health and Safety Authority immediately when it discovered in 2013 and 2014 that serious and ongoing breaches of health and safety legislation, including lack of risk assessments, lack of chemical training and lack of personal protection equipment, were causing ongoing harm to personnel of all Air Corps ranks and none; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48048/17]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
The NTMA have advised me that the State Claims Agency did not undertake audits in the Defence Forces in 2013 and 2014.
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Mr. O’Snodaigh did not ask about audits in the Defence Forces in this instance.
He asked why the “State Claims Agency did not seek assistance from the Health and Safety Authority immediately when it discovered in 2013 & 2014 that serious and ongoing breaches of health and safety legislation, including lack of risk assessments, lack of chemical training and lack of personal protection equipment, were causing ongoing harm to personnel of all Air Corps ranks and none.”
We wonder is the Minister of Finance also being mislead by the State Claims Agency’s culpability & negligence in this scandal.