Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
5:30 pm
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I take Mr. Byrne's point and thank him for answering. I am asking about the EPA's monitoring. Say I have a sewage treatment plant. It is like having a 100 horsepower tractor and a 200 horsepower tractor, to put it simply. Our witnesses will know what I am on about. For processing, one plant could be twice the size of another. Does the EPA know the amount of sewage that comes into the plants? Does the EPA have that data? Does it have the data for the volume in cubic metres of sewage treated in a plant, the amount that goes out and the capacity of the plant? Does the EPA have that data for the 500 plants in Ireland?
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