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

Photo of Tim LombardTim Lombard (Fine Gael)
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Regarding phosphorus and how we can deal with that issue, according to the EPA maps that have been published, some of the areas are not the most highly stocked. What is the gap between our current phosphorus levels and those we need to reach that have been proposed? What are the measures that we need to be looking at? It is different from the nitrates map in many ways.