Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have a lot of work to do, even before the budget, on stepping all of this out. I will be meeting the water quality working group very shortly as well and continuing to engage directly with farmers. I have been engaging strongly with all farmer representative organisations on the issue throughout, particularly through the water quality working group, because we have a shared challenge here. I want to ensure I am providing leadership on it to make sure we step this forward, deal with the challenge we have at the moment and put ourselves in a very strong position to maintain and renew the derogation in 18 months' time.