Mr. Sean Long:

On the immediate response from Inland Fisheries, we arrived in just over an hour from the time of receiving the first call and that is when our investigation began. I am satisfied that we did everything that we could. We had co-operation on the ground from the council, the EPA and the Marine Institute in terms of the sampling. Once an inter-agency group was assembled, I can say, and it was my first experience of it, there was excellent co-operation in terms of sharing data and information. Even in the very early stages, on the 11th and 12th, inter-agency colleagues fed data to each other in terms of water temperature and dissolved oxygen. That was happening in real time immediately on the 11th and the 12th. So it is not a case that the investigation did not begin until the 25th or post the request made by the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley. The investigation was happening from the start.