Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not know whether farmers would be surprised or happy, but they will agree that they are being asked to jump through a growing number of environmental hoops at their own cost.

Dr. McGoff is suggesting that the Department should be asked to provide an evidence base to demonstrate that the measures being put in place under the nitrates action programme will be sufficient for reducing the nitrates land. Clearly, she does not believe that they are. On nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution, which is the worst of the three evils?