Dr. Anne Marie Mahon:

As I said, we had long discussions and we came to an agreement where we are satisfied we can utilise the data in a way that we can communicate with the scientific community and Government bodies what are the results. It took a long time to get to that point. We engage with Teagasc but we have very specific questions that we want to answer. One concerns sewage sludge and we want to go to fields where there has been spreading of slurry. Unfortunately, it was not doing any sampling on those sites because it wanted to avoid human impact. It just wanted to look at nutrients, etc.