Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion
Mr. David Flynn:
To add to that on the process itself, the next nitrates action programme and every nitrates action programme applies, as Mr. Callanan was saying earlier, to all farmers in all types of enterprise and not just derogation farms. That nitrates action programme is subject to strategic environmental impact assessment and to appropriate assessment. These are statutory processes that will look at the impact of that programme and the water quality generally. That must be in place before the process Mr. Callanan is talking about. To re-emphasise, this is not just about derogation farmers and the intensive farmers, but about all farming.
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