Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
2:00 am
Mr. Bill Callanan:
We have been very clear that a lacuna or a period without derogation is not an option here in relation to it. In terms of voting, to remind people, there are four meetings in the year and, previously, we did not have a vote until March. That is not the end of the world in terms of availability of a derogation because it covers the year in question. We have never gone beyond March, but it has happened that we have had a March vote rather than a December vote.