Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion

Dr. Eimear Cotter:

Absolutely. As regards the impact of wastewater, we can provide the committee with those water values that are under pressure and experiencing pressures from urban wastewater. We have a priority list in the EPA which takes that list and then focuses it down for Uisce Éireann into those plants that we want to see invested in as a matter of priority. There are 89 on that list. That has just been published and it is really to ensure that Uisce Éireann targets its investment and its resources to those areas in order that we achieve the environmental outcomes we want. We do not shy away from the impact wastewater has on our water bodies. It is important to say that, as a pressure, that has been declining over the years, in contrast to agriculture, which has been increasing.

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