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 Tim LombardTim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have two more questions. I apologise, the Chair has given me great latitude. First, on the amount of testing which the EPA went through earlier, it is an average of 12 per water body per year. I was trying to make the point about what is happening in the Timoleague catchment where we are testing once every ten minutes. I worked out that for every one test the EPA was doing, we were doing 4,368 in the programme down there. What is the appropriate level of water testing required to give an appropriate average for what we are looking at?

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