Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I might ask the Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, to engage with the Deputy directly during the week. As he knows, the Minister of State has responsibility for nature, heritage and electoral reform and holds the pen on this issue. He has advised me that we need to cull significant numbers of deer over and above the 60,000 deer which have already been culled. I might ask him to speak to the Deputy later in the week and elaborate on that.

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