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 Oonagh Duggan:

I believe it was interactions between the Departments of agriculture and housing. I am not quite sure where the decision was made at the end of the day. We did try to influence it through a submission, a position paper, on the topic that was sent to the Departments of housing and agriculture, but we are not clear how the decision was made or who made it. All I know is that it is the signature of the Minister for housing that is on the statutory instrument that gives effect to the change, so that Department is the main Department, perhaps, to discuss that with.