John Paul O'Shea (Cork North-West, Fine Gael)
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But IFI could have made a public statement that it was investigating a fungal infection outbreak and a strong indication of a pollutant outbreak. That is the challenge we face here. My colleague Deputy Murphy went to great pains to find out in his six-minute slot how quickly the tests were done. There does not seem to be any serious co-operation among the groups here in trying to get to the bottom of this on a timely basis.

If there is anything we can learn from this, it is to work together. It is regrettable that has not been acknowledged today. The simple fact is it was announced on 12 August that it was a fungal infection outbreak and then IFI waited until 21 or 22 August to say it was a pollution outbreak. I do not think that is satisfactory or acceptable. Where is the Eurofins lab, which carried out the testing, based?