Dr. ThomasTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on his Department's role in the radioactivity research and environmental monitoring committee since its inception.
§ Mr. MacleanThe function of the radioactivity research and environmental monitoring committee (RADREM) is to review research and monitoring requirements and activities relating to radioactive waste management. In addition to contributing to the joint scientific secretariat for this committee, my Department has been represented on and played a full and active part in the work of the committee since its inception in 1986. Officials in my Department also chair two RADREM sub-committees, set up in 1988, dealing with research on radioactivity in the terrestrial environment and the aquatic environment respectively.