Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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388. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the second dead seal database report, covering the period 2014 to 2016 (details supplied), in particular the reports in it of a cluster of sub adult seals found dead with massive tissue loss; and if her department will take steps to investigate the cause of these deaths. [39607/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department has had sight of the second Dead Seal Database report and my officials have been in communication with the organisation referred to by the Deputy about the database.

I am advised that the deaths referred to may have been caused by one or more large bull seals. Such behaviour has been recorded in Scotland over a number of years.

My Department intends to keep abreast of research findings.