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

Dr. Eimear Cotter:

We do not get into the measures. Those are for the agriculture sector and agricultural experts to come up with. We are looking at the environment. We are looking at what is happening in water and air and from a greenhouse gas perspective. We are reporting on the trends and saying when the trends are deteriorating as well as highlighting where there are improvements. It is not really for the EPA to get into what the measures should be to improve those trends. Our role is to provide that information to help the decision makers and those who are more expert than we are in this area to put in place the appropriate measures.

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