Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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421. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there has been considerable controversy and concern by deer hunters in County Wicklow, an organisation (detail supplied) and deer management experts over misleading claims that a deer cull of 50,000 or any increase in the existing cull is required in County Wicklow; her views on the recommendation of her advisory group, the Irish Deer Management Forum, and that such claims of deer culls are contrary to conservation of wild deer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11813/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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My Department is aware of recent media reports of suggestions that it is necessary to cull up to 50,000 wild deer in Co. Wicklow. I am neither aware of the source of this figure nor of any sound basis for such a figure.