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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I know of many towns which, in fairness, the EPA has been looking to provide with sewage treatment plants. If there are farmers farming along that river and a town where sewage was coming into it, is it possible to distinguish when it takes samples whether animals or people are causing the problem? That is all I am trying to establish.