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

Dr. Jenny Deakin:

There are clues in the monitoring data. There are different signatures of different activities. We have a comprehensive assessment to determine what the significant pressures are. We use over 140 different data sets, models and tools. Ultimately, the monitoring data and the signatures of different pollutants give us the clues we need to determine the significant pressures.