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

Mr. Bill Callanan:

I wish to be clear. We pay for Teagasc to do the ACP and it is a tremendous facility. We paid for it on time. I worked in Clonakilty years ago and I know Timoleague very well. Part of our commitment under the derogation is that we must have a monitoring programme. At the outset we chose six different soil types and farm types to be representative. That material contributes to our reporting under the derogation. I wish to allay the Senator's concerns on that. Whether it feeds into the water framework is a different question. Mr. Harris may wish to comment on that. We are required to have a monitoring system and programme as part of our implementation of that derogation and ACP delivers that for us.

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