Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann
2:00 am
Mr. Sean Laffey:
That is correct. We will be the seventh largest pressure on water bodies across the country after the next river basin management plan cycle. There are approximately 4,800 water bodies as per the river basin management plan. We are a pressure on 197 of those. Farmers, and farming in general, are a pressure on 1,000 of those water bodies. This comes from data compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, so it is all scientifically-backed.
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