Minister ‘at variance with Teagasc’

DIFFERENT voices coming from Teagasc have damaged the organisation, said Environment Minister Dick Roche, in a Senate debate on the Nitrates Directive.
Minister ‘at variance with Teagasc’

“That is a great pity because there are some extraordinarily talented people in the organisation. They are good scientists but good science should be objective and clear, and not be based on the whim or pressure of the moment,” said the Minister in the Seanad Private Members Motion debate.

“When Teagasc said in January, after the regulation had been signed, that there may be some new scientific findings on phosphates, I said I was willing to listen,” said the Minister.

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