Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Department of housing was in here and its representatives said the model Europe wants us to use is not the model it would use. Does the EPA have anything to say about that? My understanding is the EPA gets data about how many cattle are in an area and how many treatment plants or whatever. Has that modelling ever been looked at to see that it is accurate? Is there a different type of modelling the EPA looks at as well, to be doubly sure? There is many a thing in farming you are told is the right way but you find out it might not be as good as another way; that is what I want to find out.