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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

...what they know about these river systems in order to inform their restoration. Certainly, the likes of river trusts, angling groups and biodiversity groups can also play a critical role in any habitat reparation work once a barrier has been overcome or eased, and there will be a requirement to do that. This has to be complemented with water quality improvement and habitat improvement to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

...approach. I have a copy of one we have done for the River Dodder, which looks at the information. We try to bring together many sources of information along with sources from colleagues in the EPA and parks and wildlife, and we have data coming in from our own fish surveys. We also have rapid habitat assessment techniques that we use to look at habitats. We try to get a picture of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

...be to try to bring together all the State agencies. There has not really been a facility in place to bring together the county council, IFI, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the OPW, the EPA, all those organisations. In the past the issues around Clohamon have been a bit of a hot potato; I am sure the members are all aware it has been a hot topic. Clohamon is a village on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

...which is when the salmon and sea trout tend to run, is such that there is an attraction into the actual hydro facility. Therefore there is more water is coming into the hydro facility. We had the EPA down in 2022 and we measured the flows down there. At medium to low water flow, 80% of the water from the river was going through the hydro facility and only 20% was going into the main...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

...called a meeting in Newport. I asked all of the agencies to come with a projection over the following five years of what their ideal water requirements would be. We asked representatives from the EPA, OPW, the county council and so on. I had a little blackboard and a piece of chalk. We started the meeting with everyone giving me millions of litres. We totted it up, and it was 110% of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: Yes, we are working closely. Under the water framework directive, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has identified the pristine catchments we want to keep at that very good level and we are actively involved in supporting that. A large programme of money is being set aside to try to maintain them. It is important those catchments are maintained. Under our...