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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I thank Dr. Cotter. I will give each member ten minutes. We can then have a second round of questions, if necessary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Dr. Cotter should answer the question. The question is straightforward. Has it been independently reviewed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: You will find large towns that have mixed sewers as well with storm waters and sewage. When my town gets heavy rain, the town floods and the treatment plant just opens its sluicegates and lets it straight into the River Suir.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: The Deputy is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I call Senator Lombard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Dr. Cotter referenced figures showing a significant increase in nitrate levels. The graphs on page 6 of the report show that on a national basis, nitrogen concentration went from 14.1 mg to 14.6 mg in the period 2010 to 2022. There was an increase in the drought in 2018, but the figures clearly show that there is no trend of any increase in nitrate concentration in water nationally, in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I am referring to the graph on page 6, which shows that from 2010 to 2022, there has been 0.5 mg of a difference. That does not amount to a discernible trend in deterioration of water quality nitrates-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: -----even though there has been a significant increase in cow numbers. In reply Senator Lombard, Dr. Cotter indicated that the national trend was on a seriously downward slope. The EPA's graphs do not show that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: This is the nitrogen concentration nationally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: In groundwater.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Dr. Cotter gave an impression that water quality-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Dr. Cotter gave an impression in her answer to Senator Lombard that there was a significant downward trend. If the EU examined that based on its own criteria, there would be no discernible change in water quality over a significant period in which cow numbers have increased dramatically.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Deputy Matthews is over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: I call Senator Lombard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: We have to finish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: That is, in EU terms, considered stable water quality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Okay. We are way over time, Senator Lombard.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion (19 Jul 2023)
Jackie Cahill: Yes.