Water quality plan ‘unworkable’

A DRAFT plan to implement a key EU measure designed to protect water quality against nitrates from agriculture is unworkable, according to the Irish Farmers Association.

The action plan relating to the EU nitrates directive was rejected by delegates at the IFA’s two-day annual general meeting, which ended in Limerick yesterday.

It was drawn up by the Department of the Environment in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and Food and Teagasc and was published last month.