Naas-based company on EPA priority list for non-compliance issues

The Environmental Protection Agency have placed Naas-based food processing company Arrow Group on a National Priority Sites List. The list is created by the EPA to focus on companies that have received a certain number of complaints due to various non-compliance issues. The list includes seven companies from around Ireland, with Arrow Group being the only Kildare business named. All of these companies face further enforcement action, the EPA have said in a statement. The National Priority Sites for Enforcement system was launched by the EPA in July 2017 to drive further environmental compliance at industrial and waste facilities. Arrow Group previously topped the rankings for odour complaints in 2015. Licensed facilities are identified as national priority sites for enforcement using a system developed by the EPA.  Points are allocated to each site based on compliance data such as complaints, incidents and non-compliances over the previous six months.  Sites which exceed a certain threshold become a National Priority Site and are targeted by the EPA for further enforcement action. The following are the National Priority Sites for October 2017 to March 2018.  The EPA update the National Priority Sites list on a quarterly basis.

Reg. No.	Licence Name	County
P0812-01	Arrow Group	Kildare
P0802-02	Aurivo Dairy Ingredients Limited	Roscommon
P0690-03	C & F Automotive Limited	Westmeath
P1004-02	Glenmore Biogas Limited	Donegal
P0815-02	Lacpatrick Dairies Limited	Monaghan
P0180-02	Rosderra Irish Meats Group (Edenderry)	Offaly
P0320-02	T & J Standish (Roscrea) Limited	Offaly

Further details of the National Priority Sites scoring system and the list of sites can be found on the EPA website. Enforcement information on all sites can be found under the Licence Search pages at www.epa.ie. Complaints about licensed sites can be made on-line at www.epa.ie or by contacting the EPA at 053-9160600.