Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Nitrates Directive, Water Quality and Pollution: Discussion

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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There are new Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, proposals coming out relating to sowing trees and spreading with GPS fertiliser spreaders, which would help water quality. There are something like five different examples, and this refers back to water quality. Are those options available up to somebody on the 170 kg/ha/year limit? Does the Department deal with that?