Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their attendance. The EPA's remit involves the monitoring of intensive agriculture practices and makes specific mention of pigs and chickens. What sort of data is the EPA collecting? Many of the antibiotics that go into pig and chicken feeds are powdered. Is the EPA looking at distribution in the local air or at the waste produced by pigs and chickens? Is that waste being used as fertiliser on land? Really what I am getting at is the pathway of antibiotics into drinking water. That is where I am going with this. Could Ms Burke elaborate on exactly what the EPA is doing when monitoring chicken, poultry and pigs? What is the specific role of the EPA and what is it specifically measuring?