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 Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. The witnesses referred to 1,000 watercourses that are impacted on by agriculture. There will obviously be specific issues with each of them and not all of them are drinking water supplies. If they were drinking water supplies, would all 1,000 of them breach the standards the EPA has outlined for drinking water?

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