Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent regulation (EU) 2016/429 on transmissible animal diseases (details supplied); and if he will reconsider his refusal to release information with regard to the outbreak of cardiomyopathy resulting in 200,000 mortalities of farmed salmon and numerous wild mackerel reported to Inland Fisheries Ireland’s Macroom office by a member of the public on the afternoon of 21 September 2017. [53697/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Marine Institute is the Competent Authority for the implementation of aquatic animal health legislation. The Institute has advised my Department that the Regulation referred to by the Deputy which shall apply in EU Member States from 21 April 2021 does not envisage the listing of Cardiomyopathy Syndrome.

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the virus cardiomyopathy has been found in the lice that infect farmed salmon. [53698/17]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the cardiomyopathy virus revealed by him in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 8 November 2017 is not now nor will become transmissible to human beings. [53699/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 561 and 562 together.

My Department has been advised by the Marine Institute that the virus referred to by the Deputy has been reported as occurring in sea lice in one Norwegian report. The report reference is as follows:

Hellebø, A., Stene, A., and Asphaug, V. (2014). Potensielle reservoarer for SAV og PMCV p_a marine akvakulturanlegg, (In Norwegian). Ålesund, Norway: Møreforskning og Høgskolen i _Alesund. 1–23.

The Marine Institute has also advised, in accordance with its Statement of 8 December, that this disease has no impact on human health.