Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú:

I counted seven questions but if I forget to answer any of them, I ask that the Deputy Healy-Rae remind me.

I am very familiar with access and traffic in Killarney town. Killarney has always been a bottleneck. That is to some extent the price of success and it is also partially caused by the difficulty of getting around the town. In the context of the existing bypass on to the N72, the National Parks and Wildlife Service is very co-operative about ceding part of the demesne to the bypass. We are very aware of the problems. The Deputy will be glad to hear that the appeal to An Bord Pleanála regarding the proposed revamp of the car park at Muckross House has been overturned and we will proceed with the project. We are in constant contact with the local authority on traffic management issues and we are acutely conscious of them. As the Chairman pointed out, our remit is not around the extension but there is no doubt that we will be consulted on it. We are acutely aware of the importance of getting visitors safely to and from the national park. We will continue our dialogue with the local authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland with regard to dealing with this long-running traffic management issue. Deputy Healy-Rae will be well aware that Killarney is an absolute bottleneck but we will certainly do our bit around that.

On the deer issue, fencing Killarney National Park, our largest national park, is not feasible and I know the Deputy is not suggesting that we do so. We have a new management regime in place in Killarney. We have taken a very serious look at the deer population. More than 270 deer have been culled this year. We have to be very careful to achieve a balance in this regard. There are reasons for doing so related to animal husbandry, public safety and so on. The cull is larger than in previous years for a variety of reasons. The demesne is part of the national park and the deer can access it. The Deputy is absolutely right-----