Paul Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In a second because this is tied into it. Dr. Cotter, in response to Senator Boyhan, voluntarily offered to forward additional information with regard to urban wastewater and other pollutants outside agriculture to the committee. Does she not think she should have done that anyway, and should also send that to the Commission? The EPA had its brief but it stuck very rigidly to it.

I have two fields that have road frontage. A stream runs through the two of them that is perpendicular to the road. I have two acres and have been funded for keeping the cattle out of those, putting in a pump and getting the water out. I have done everything by the book. All the wash from the road is feeding into the same stream, right at my hedge. It might be roadkill, rubber or oil after a dry spell. If my farm is under the microscope here with regard to the quality of that stream or river, does Dr. Cotter not think the Commission should know that when there is a downpour of rain, water gushes into that stream off a road that may have been dry for a month? As I said, there is rubber, oil and roadkill - you name it. Does the Commission not deserve to view that as well, to give me half a chance of survival here?