Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Karin Dubsky:

I am talking about our drinking water that comes from the taps. We used to have perfect water from a group scheme but we do not any longer. We are now on the public supply, as are hundreds and thousands of others around Gorey. We must look at that. Data from Coastwatch show that half of the samples we take every autumn from our surface waters, which are going into the sea, are bad. Committee members have a printout of those data. The trends are getting worse and worse so we must act.