Animal Diseases

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 14 December 2017

Thursday, 14 December 2017

Questions (560)

Clare Daly

Question:

560. Deputy Clare Daly asked 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]

Written answers

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

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.