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

Mr. Bill Callanan:

I will give an overview. We are getting fixated on one year. The reality is the Commission looks at this over a period and at the overall trend. We need to reflect on that because, ultimately, that is the arbiter of whether we are going in the right direction in terms of water quality. Post 2024 and 2025, the water quality trend was not moving in the right direction. That has improved over recent years, albeit we accept that the preliminary finding for 2025 is not positive.

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