John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

Question 4: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine if he will acknowledge that the Irish salmon farming industry has made significant improvements in lice management control through large investments in well-boats, good husbandry practices, in single-site generations and the use of treatments which dissolve harmlessly into pure oxygen and water; his views that the report issued in 2010 on his review of the national strategy on pest control highlighted significant improvements in control and management and reductions in sea lice on sea farms; and in view of this overwhelming evidence and continuing improvements, if he will immediately remove the logjam caused by a State agency (details supplied) under a different Department which prevents marine finfish farmers from accessing capital grant aid to which they are entitled. [7540/12]

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