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. David Flynn:

The value from our point of view and a water manager perspective is that through the ASSAP we learn the practices that work. Because we have such high resolution monitoring, we can see almost in real time what is and is not working. It is about translating that to other catchments through the ASSAP by providing that free advice at farm level. There is a balance between cost and resolution when looking at monitoring. Obviously testing every few minutes is very expensive. That must be balanced with the resources required. The value is in what is learned from those really intensively monitored catchments.

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