Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Jim Casey:

Yes. A number of those areas are currently in good status and we are constantly considering the impact of arterial drainage maintenance. The work we now do in that respect is not primarily about constructing new arterial drainage schemes, since we are not doing that anymore, but about maintaining the existing schemes. We have to do careful environmental assessments on all of that maintenance, and I have referenced some of those. One of the focuses of such assessments is on the impact of what we are doing in respect of water quality and the water framework directive targets. We focus on the status and quality of the water in those areas.

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