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

Mr. Jack Nolan:

I add that a lot of what the Chairman said there is being considered as part of the CAP consultation around TAMS ceilings, grants and so on. A sum of €100 million has been grant-aided to dairy farmers under the previous TAMS. On the idea around contractors, the derogation is very valuable. I know I keep coming back to it but industry needs to help as well to cause change on farms because otherwise it is not going to work. Deputy Carthy raised the idea of the dairy sustainability project and what exactly is happening there. It has been shown and proven through research that advisory input at a farm level is so important and that is where we need the co-operatives to come in as well and give advice on water quality.

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