Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:00 am

Photo of Joe CooneyJoe Cooney (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in today and making their presentation. Water quality is important and vital, as is protecting the farming community going forward. That is why it is important to try to see if it is at all possible to at least maintain what we have. On water quality in the EPA report, from 2024 to 2025, was there a massive change in water quality or was it small? The EPA was happy in 2024 but there now seems to be more of a concern in 2025. Will someone outline how much of a change there was and was it major over that period?

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