Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

On landing, if it mixes with livestock faeces, urine, silage effluent, chemical fertilisers, milking parlour washings, washings from mushroom houses or water used in washing farm equipment, it is considered soiled. Once soiled, there is a regulation and a specification and that is what must happen. Clean water has no specification, soiled water has a specification and slurry has a specification. It is very simple and is available to farmers — the specification is part of the scheme and part of the application form.

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