Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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Staying with this, true to form farming is the big bogey. Dr. Ryan led with water quality and stated that agriculture, forestry and physical changes such as land drainage are the big issues. The farming community would take big issue with that. There are a lot more factors at play in terms of water quality. Has the EPA not seen a huge change in farming? Has it not seen farmers engage with the process and be inordinately proactive over the past ten years in particular as regards water quality?