Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

More than 30 measures have been included in the Nitrates Directive since 2018.

They need to be given time to demonstrate that there are improvements and it comes back to this lag in time. In the witnesses' opinion, how much time should be given to get a correct reading over a space of time rather than the 12-month period that seems to be happening here? Would it take two or three years to get a correct reading in an area?

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