Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy.

This is not something that has been raised with me as an issue. It is a matter best addressed to the Northern Irish Administration since it is a question specifically for the latter.

On our work on protecting water quality and ensuring the appropriate management of all farmyard nutrients, we have put massive investment in through the targeted agriculture modernisation, TAMS, on-farm investment schemes. Farmers across the country have put in significant resources of their own, assisted by Government supports through those grants to radically transform the facilities on each farmyard in the country over the last two or three decades. A very different infrastructure is in place now. It is something we continue to build on because it is really important that while we farm and produce food really well, it is done in such a way that water, our natural environment and biodiversity are protected. That is fundamental to our approach.

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