Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The board of Inland Fisheries Ireland made a decision in April to exit trout production. Two hatcheries in Roscrea and Cullion near Mullingar were affected. The board engaged in a period of public consultation that started on 5 July 2016 and subsequently ceased. The board has met and agreed to defer indefinitely its proposal to exit trout production. The board met a delegation from the main trout angling representative bodies in August to discuss the IFI's proposal. I have visited both facilities and I suggest if there is an issue and an interest in the committee, its members would visit both facilities in Roscrea and Cullion to see them. They are somewhat antiquated. They are doing the job they were designed to do but in a different era. The board has agreed to postpone the closure and exiting of production indefinitely but it recognises there are significant economic and environmental issues that need to be addressed in those facilities.