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:

For the purposes of reporting, yes. Under the nitrates directive, that is what we do. As to our full water quality reports, we published an indicators report in July and we had a full three-year assessment published last October which looks at all the pressures on water quality around the country. We can see that agriculture impacts on 1,000 water bodies. We are also looking at physical modifications such as drainage, channelisation, physical structures and how they impact on water quality. Then there is urban wastewater and forestry. Those are all included in our full assessment. For the purposes of the nitrates directive, that is what we are focusing on.

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