Departmental Investigations
Dail Éireann — 2021-12-09
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

This question is about investigations in the Department. I am concerned with one investigation in particular. The farm nutrient management scheme in the North of Ireland provided funding for the improvement of animal waste storage. The scheme cost more than £200 million and nearly 4,000 farmers participated in the scheme. It is alleged that the tanks constructed under the scheme are now leaking raw emissions into the environment. Have any incidences of leakages of these raw emissions been investigated in the waterways that cross the Border into the South? The Minister is a Donegal man and that county would be exposed to these potential leaks.

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Sitting date: 2021-12-09