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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: ...the situation they had to cope with recently in light of the reduction from 250 kg N/ha to 220 kg N/ha. I know there were quite a lot of visits to farms in Timoleague and that whole area in west Cork where water quality was found to be as good as you could probably get but it still made no difference to them. They are still in the same tunnel, on the same bus with the reduction from 250...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Collins: I thank Mr. Horgan. This is a serious issue. There are other areas in west Cork where raw sewage is entering the pipeline, yet there is so much finger-pointing at farmers that it is almost as if the farmer is guilty of all the wrongs that exist when that is not the case. We have to put this situation right in our towns and villages. In my village of Goleen in west Cork, we spent a great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Fitzmaurice: ...fairness, the Department said something a bit different. In some cases, a river is tested once a year. The results could be bad or good the next year. In other cases, such as in some places in Cork, things are being tested every 15 minutes. What criteria are used? Is it hard luck if the results are bad on the day and good luck if they are good? What sort of a system have we?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

...organising farmer events within priority areas for action and contribute vital water quality information to local farmer association meetings. We have presented water quality data at Irish Farmers Journal-hosted events in Cork, Portlaoise and Cavan, and we have supported several co-op farmer sustainability events. LAWPRO delivers catchment science and management training to ASSAP...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

.... On improvements, obviously there are lags across policy into implementation. Once there is implementation to measure on the ground, then it depends on the soil thickness. In Curtins Farm, in Cork, which is on karst, for example, you would see a very quick response to measures because there is a very quick pathway down to the water bodies, whereas on thicker soil, which was still...