Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 September 2013
465. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the report of Inland Fisheries Ireland in October 2010, critical of the Marine Institute's monitoring of sea lice in fish farms and expressing concern about the effect on wild stocks, was not passed on to the European Commission. [39617/13]
View answerIn responding to the case referred to by the Deputy my Department forwarded all relevant material to the EU Commission, including material supplied by Inland Fisheries Ireland. In addition, the EU Commission arranged for Inland Fisheries Ireland to make a direct oral presentation of its position at a meeting with the Commission on 19 December 2011 at which my Department was also present. Following consideration of the scientific facts underpinning the State’s control protocols for the management of sea lice the EU Commission closed the case on 11 October 2012.
