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.