Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The question then arises, and it is probably one which Professor Scott could contribute on, where we are obviously seeing a much higher level of rainfall now because of climate change, do our guest speakers believe that will mean there will be more difficulties when it comes to nitrates where this rainfall might actually run everything into the system a great deal more quickly with spate floods happening? What do they believe the impact on run-off will be from the increased rainfall we are seeing?