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)
    Professor John Sweeney:
  It is one that is left because 40 years ago there were 500 of those watercourses which were in pristine condition.  The Deputy’s watercourse is one of the 20 which is left at this stage.