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
Ms Pamela McDonnell:
There were lots of issues at the site and a lot of complex issues that required investment. They ended up on our national priority sites list initially in 2022 and remained on it in 2023 and 2024. It is only in quarters 1 and 2 of 2025 that they have been off our national priority sites list. A lot of the issues related to storm water management, air emissions and also wastewater discharges. They made investments and improved their wastewater discharges but then they had an incident in June of this year which has put them back into the non-compliant space that they have been in. We are focusing our enforcement efforts on that now to get them back into compliance again in a sustainable way.
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