Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty I see with it is that farming practices in Ireland are much different from those of other European countries. In light of arguments over climate change, which often get intertwined with this debate, might the Commission feel that this is a way of controlling emissions, even though everything we do on the nitrates side would be correct?

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