Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Fish Kill in the River Blackwater: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Conor Arnold:
This whole situation has been indicative of the base load of pollution in the river being at an exceptionally high level. All it took was one pollution incident to drive this over the edge and cause a fish kill of this magnitude. We have the EPA sitting here, giving us numerous examples of breaches of its licences. It took one incident to cause this. How many times are we going to let it happen again?