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:
We have an annual inspection programme in which we are out on site with Uisce Éireann. If there are issues at a plant, non-compliances are raised right through to prosecution. We have prosecuted Uisce Éireann 28 times in relation to wastewater plants and nine times in relation to drinking water. That is our role as the environmental regulator, which we have been fulfilling over the past number of years.