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. Jenny Deakin:
It is certainly an enormous challenge given where we have come from. The water framework directive has been in place since the 1990s and the target for 2027 has been there since then. Here we are a few years out and we are still at 54% so there is an enormous trajectory to get through in a short space of time to reach the 2027 target.