Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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I appreciate it is challenging. Equally, however, it is very challenging for the farming community. If we were to take at face value what we are saying in terms of the staffing, this EIP farming for water initiative is not going to work because we are not going to have the bodies there to implement it, go out and assess farms and then police the process.