Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

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

5:30 pm

Dr. Eimear Cotter:

That is not a space that we in the EPA gets into directly. We monitor what is happening in the water environment. We engage closely with Teagasc, where it makes sense to do that, in providing that data. Teagasc has just launched a new water quality campaign this year, which is built on our data. We make these data accessible to them. It is certainly something that we were very engaged in but we do not directly engage with farmers one on one. We support those that do.