Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Supports for Private Advisory Providers Delivering Advice on Nitrates and Water Quality Improvements: Agricultural Consultants Association

2:00 am

Mr. Owen O'Driscoll:

There is huge potential. We met the nitrates section last week. We would love to be part of the sixth water group. We have a lot of experience to bring to the table. The difficulty is that it will take time. We are all working in our own businesses. It is difficult unless we have a dedicated person we can feed our information to. That is probably a resource issue but we are limited by time. Certainly, there could be potential to create some sort of a conduit to get involved with it. We would be more than willing to get on board.