asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries if there has been any success in combating the salmon disease; and what are the prospects that it will be completely eliminated next season.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Salmon Disease.
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While a measure of success has been achieved in the experiments on the disease carried out at my Department's Veterinary Research Laboratory at Abbotstown and in other countries it has not yet been possible to isolate the causative organism. I should add that even when the cause of the disease has been established it will be by no means easy to devise practical means of eliminating it since salmon are a wild stock, much of whose life is spent at sea.
Just like the Government.
And I was thinking "much like the Opposition".
The Minister is a bit late.