Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Eoin Kinsella:
It could be anything from 5% up to 100%. It could be as low as 1%. The weighting that the Department puts on it depends on how severe the non-compliance is. We are tied down to five SIEs. We have four assistant scientists carrying out farm inspections under the new NAIP, launched by the EPA. We are currently tied to those regulations. The majority of our minor non-compliances are dealt with in-house. It could be as little as a downpipe, a gutter or a soil yard mismanaged. We deal with that in-house. We write to the farmer and revisit the matter in three months, for example. A major non-compliance would be a discharge to surface water.
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