Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source
Is there agreement from the Department and all parties? I have a last question for Inland Fisheries. There could be a farmer in derogation, or a swathe of farmers, who are doing everything right and to the best of their abilities and have enough storage. I agree that storage is awfully important. There could be a person two miles down the road from those farmers who is not in derogation. If that person does not know how to spread slurry correctly, that could harm the area. Is that fair to say? In such a scenario, it is the derogation farmer who would pay the price.
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