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)

Photo of Claire KerraneClaire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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For those farmers who are in the derogation, their first priority is to hold that. If the specific measures they are taking are not enough to do what needs to be done, we will get to the point in a couple of years' time, when this is being examined again, that farmers will be told what they did actually did nothing. That needs to be turned around.