Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise with the Taoiseach his Government's handling of the nitrates derogation, which has caused a huge amount of anger and stress for farmers. The issue originates in the Government's decision to sign up to a flawed review mechanism in the first place. As the Taoiseach will be aware, farmers acted on and implemented measures to improve water quality but time has not been allowed to see the effect of those actions. Instead they feel the rug has been pulled from under them. The map outlining areas facing a derogation stock cut from next year was published yesterday. This has now become very real . The Taoiseach made a commitment some weeks ago to invite the Commissioner to come to Ireland to reopen this matter with them. Is this meeting going to happen? When will this meeting happen? Is the matter to be revisited? What exactly will the Taoiseach say to the Commissioner as and when they meet?

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