Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 October 2017
295. Deputy Clare Daly asked 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]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe 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.
