Written answers

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Aquaculture Licence Appeals

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his attention was drawn to a major disease outbreak at a site (details supplied) in Bantry Bay, County Cork; and the reason this information was not made available to the aquaculture licence appeals board oral hearing in September 2017. [44926/17]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board hearing took place in Bantry on 19th and 20th September, 2017.

As the Deputy is aware, on 21st September my Department received an inquiry from Inland Fisheries Ireland concerning large quantities of dead fish at the site referred to by the Deputy. Subsequent inquiries by my Department’s Marine Engineering Division indicated that substantial mortalities had occurred.

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