Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy

Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Barry Fox:

I will take that question. We have discussed this at the interagency level. It is not something that IFI normally does in its standard operating procedure. When we investigate a pollution or fish kill, our primary objective is to find live discharge because that is what we require to take action. Certainly, there are lessons learned from this. It is something we will have to look at. There is an appetite from the agencies that are involved in this under normal circumstances to move to that position and have the rapid response team and a protocol in place to do those types of analysis.

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