Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Ireland's Water Quality: Discussion
Mr. Bill Callanan:
I will ask Mr. Flynn to deal with the question on the substantive issue. With regard to process, we asked the EPA to go the working group last Thursday and basically account, explain and answer questions. That meeting went from 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. It was a fairly intensive challenging of that science regarding the EPA's capacity to be to able to respond to questions such as whether it took this or whether it took that and on the points that were included in the overall. It was an open process in terms of that challenge, from a stakeholder point of view.