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. John Enright:

From our perspective the decision has been taken last March and that is the decision that is in place. Our concern is that we need to look at the impact of that decision on individual farmers. It will be severe on individual farmers and rather than looking back at history we need to examine how we will resolve this issue for the farmers concerned. That is our issue and our deputy president made the point that we need to give time for these measures to have an impact and we believe we have not been given sufficient time. All we have done is put new and severe regulations on people and we need to look at that again. We need to look at the economic impacts of that and try to resolve the issue going forward rather than looking back at history.

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