Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Nitrates Derogation and Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Drennan spoke about contamination from wastewater treatment plants. Has any empirical work been done on that? If someone is contaminating groundwater, whoever it is should be held accountable for it. I have no issue with that. The question is if wastewater treatment plants are bringing up the contamination levels, has any empirical work been done on that, to Mr. Drennan's knowledge? He is saying that if we deal with all these issues over the next year or two, and we come to the directive being implemented, he believes it would then be implemented in a much fairer way. Is that a fair comment?

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