Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion
Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:
That would be a matter for the EPA. They will probably relate to total flows, total abstraction limits, whether the points of abstraction can be different for groundwater versus river abstraction and controls that might be brought in at periods of stress, such as environmental stress when there are draughts. There would be a range of controls which the EPA could increase as required.