AN AQUACULTURE LICENCE FOR SHOT HEAD,...

AQUACULTURE LICENCES APPEALS BOARD

AN AQUACULTURE LICENCE FOR SHOT HEAD, BANTRY BAY, CO. CORK

EVIDENCE HEARD BEFORE MR.OWEN MCINTYRNE,

WEST LODGE HOTEL, BANTRY BAY, CO. CORK

ON WEDNESDAY, 15TH FEBRUARY 2017.

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APPEARANCES

CHAIR OF ORAL HEARING: MR. O. MCINTYRE

TECHNICAL ADVISOR TOTHE ALAB BOARD: MR. G. SAUNDERS

INDEPENDENT TECHNICALADVISOR FOR THE CHAIR: MR. S. RIDER

FOR DEPARTMENT OFTHE MARINE: MR. J. QUINLAN

FOR AN TAISCE: MR. A. DOYLE

BARRY DOYLE & CO

FOR SALMON WATCH IRL: MR. P O'MAOLAIN BL

FOR MARINE HARVEST: MS. C. MCMANUS

DR. N. BASS

FOR INLAND FISHERIES: DR. P. GARGAN

APPELLANTS/ REPRENSENTATIVES

APPELLANTS/ REPRESENTATIVES

SAVE BANTRY BAY ALEC O'DONOVAN

PETER SWEETMAN

CON O'LEARY

RESIDENTS OF ROOSKADRIGOLE: BREDA O'SULLIVAN

JOHN BRENDAN O'KEEFFE: JOHN BRENDAN O'KEEFEE

DENIS, KIERAN AND JASONO'SHEA KIERAN O'SHEA

BANTRY SALMON & TROUT

ANGLERS ASSOCIATION CON O'LEARY

MARINE HARVEST IRELAND: CATHERINE McMANUS

DR. NEIL BASS ENVIRONMENTALADVISOR

JAN C FEENSTRA MD

HARRINGTON/O'SULLIVAN/MURPHY/FORKER

COOMHOLA SALMON & TROUTANGLERS ASSOCIATION : TEDDY O'BRIEN

MARK BOYDEN

OWEN BOYDEN

GALWAY BAY AGAINST SALMONCAGES: BRIAN E CURRAN PRO GALWAY BAY

AINE NI CHEANNABHAIN (GBASC)

MAIRE CONNELY ( GBASC )

ENDA CONNEELY ( GBASC )

SALMON WATCH IRELAND: NIALL GREENE

PEADAR O'MAOLAIN

JOHN MURPHY

JOHN HUNT: JOHN HUNT

DONAL HUNT

FRIENDS OF THE IRISHENVIRONMENT CAROLINE LEWIS

TONY LOWES

INLAND FISHERIES: PATRICK GARGAN

FEDERATION OF IRISHSALMON & SEATROUT ANGLERS

INLAND FISHERIES IRELAND: MICHAEL McPARTLAND

AQUACULTURE AND FORESHOREDIVISION: JOHN QUINLAN ( DAFM )

KEVIN HODNETT ( DAFM )

THERESE O'KEEFE ( DAFM )

NICOLE O'SHEA ( DAFM )

MARINE ENGINEERINGDIVISON: TONY O'SULLIVAN

RAPHAEL CROWLEY

MARINE INSTITUTE: DR. TERRY MCMAHON

DR. JEFFREY FISHER

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THE PROCEEDINGS CONTINUED ON THE 15TH OF FEBRUARY 2017

AS FOLLOWS:

MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay, good morning everyone. If we can

get started, I know our - we have moved around the

agenda a little bit over the course of yesterday. But

we did decide yesterday that we would go back to hear

the conclusion of the presentation from An Taisce. Is

that okay, Alan?

MR. DOYLE: That is fine, that is fine. Good morning,

Mr. Chairman. Continuing on from where I finished off

in relation to probative assessment yesterday.

I was interested by some of Dr. Good's points in

relation to the importance of Dromagowlane River for

the ultimate conservation of the freshwater pearl

mussel. I might disagree with him on his conclusion

that - that the notification obligation on the

habitat's directive is spent. But I think what's

crucial is that the freshwater pearl mussel is

designated under the habitat's directive as a species

requiring protection. And according to Article 2 -

Article 2 paragraph 2 of the habitat's directive

measures taken pursuant to the directive;

"Shall be designed to maintain and restore a favourable

conservation status natural habitats and species of

wild fauna and flora community interest". Freshwater

pearl mussel is a species of community interest. It is

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not a favourable conservation status. It is impossibly

terminal decline and the main populations in the Barrow

and Nore rivers have not reproduced since 1970's. And

they have a life expectancy of about a hundred years.

So they appear to be nearing an end game there. The

evidence is that the pearl mussel in the Dromagowlane

has not reproduced in the last thirty years.

And, in those circumstances, switching directives, the

EIA of this proposed development at Shot Head

absolutely must identify what the likely impact of this

development will be on the Dromagowlane River. And it

absolutely cannot ignore the issue and ignore the

existence of the river as the - as the original EIS

did.

It is essential that the necessary data be collected

and analysed and that the assessment evaluate that

data, in order to decide is their likely to be an

effect, what mitigation measures can be put in place if

there is.

And if mitigation measures are even appropriate,

whether the effect is such and the importance of the

species is such, that a refusal would instead be

warranted.

And I would say that it is very late in the process to

be initiating this sort of Inquiry and the better

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course is to refuse the application and allow the

developer come again with a properly constituted

application that addresses these points.

Similarly, in relation to the otter, my point was not

there will be a disturbance of otters per se but that

the otter is strictly protected under the habitat's

directive. And because it is strictly protected, it is

crucial that the EIA, when it is carried out, identify,

describe and assess what the affects on the otter would

be in Dromagowlane area, Dromagowlane River area.

If I can move on then to Environmental Impact

Assessment and then my fourth point, the water

framework directive. In relation to the EIA, as I have

mentioned, Article 5 paragraph 3 of the EIA directive

requires;

"Information to be provided by the developer shall

include at least (C) the data required to identify and

assess the main affects which the project is likely to

have on the environment".

So, in relation to Dromagowlane, that would include

establishing whether there are any otters in the area,

how many, where they are, what do they feed on? Have

they a similar diet to those in the Glengarriff area

which I have already covered in the habitat's directive

and which are not covered either in the EIA. Question

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arises how will lice, in the water, affect the food

chain? And probably, more importantly, how will the

residual chemicals in the water affect the food chain,

particularly in the immediate vicinity near to

Dromagowlane? But also in relation to Glengarriff,

what happens there?

And I would adopt, in particular, the Coomhola and

Kieran O'Shea Appeals submissions here yesterday, in

relation to the potential affects of chemicals in the

water which have not been - have not been properly

assessed as to how they impact on protected species in

the area. So we are unclear as to what the affects of

chemicals will be on microorganisms, the knock on

effects on smaller marine fauna and the subsequent

affects for fauna higher up the food chain, such as the

salmon and otters and the common seal which is another

species which is protected, particularly in SAC.

I say that the information before the Board is now out

of date and this hearing has heard the evidence

relating to the subsequent scientific research papers

which obviously have not been handed in but which, Mr.

Chairman, you asked for full citations for.

The developer might feel that it was unfair to be hit

with a standard of research published subsequent to his

application. But, in my view, the reason this

application dragged on for so long was that the initial

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standard of the information was very low and the

Department and laterally the Board have given the

developer every opportunity to improve the quality of

that information. And it is still, in my submission,

very low.

In those circumstances, rather than persist in giving

the developer additional opportunities to mend his

hand, my submission was, as previously said, is that

the Appeal should be refused.

In that respect, I refer again to Tab 24 which I

mentioned yesterday which says the flow in the bay is

counter clockwise and carries lice away from the river

at the head of the bay towards the sea. And this

contributes to the flushing of the bay and lice cannot

travel upstream. And that is still the essence of the

developer's argument. But that ignores the following

points.

Firstly, lice will be carried directly past Shot Head

on the outgoing tide, available to be washed back into

the Dromagowlane Estuary on the next tide.

It ignores the smolts from rivers at the head of the

bay passing by on their way out to sea which may be

infected and then not return home.

The same argument, as I made yesterday, in relation to

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Glengariff applies also in relation to the

Environmental Impact Assessment for the other rivers

such as Coomhola and Mealagh and the Ouvane outside of

the outside of the SAC, the affects there need to be

taken into consideration and identified and have not

been.

And similarly the affects on the otter populations

generally around the bay.

The Board has asked for information in relation to

salmon populations and freshwater pearl populations and

I'd draw the hearings attention to Section 47(1) of the

1997 act provides;

"Where the Board is of the opinion that any document,

particulars or other information is or unnecessary for

the purposes of enabling the determinative Appeal it

shall serve a notice requiring that information to be

submitted".

And I want to emphasise that before it serves that

notice, the Board must have formed the opinion the

information is necessary. Therefore, if it does not get

the information, it cannot proceed to grant a licence.

And I think that is a critical element of the process

here, that if the developer has not submitted the

information and I say it has not in substance submitted

it, then the only option is to refuse. Not open to, not

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open to go back and keep on looking for it again and

again.

I have very serious concerns, Mr. Chairman, in relation

to the absence of any consideration cumulative affects

of this development, along with the other fish farms in

the bay and along with all other activities in the bay.

There is no mention of cumulative affects, there is no

mention of other activities what impacts they are

having and how this development could add to them,

either in the EIS or in the Department's Environmental

Impact Assessment. The cumulative affects get one

mention in the Departments's EIA document, at page 51,

where the Department says that;

"There will be no cumulation of the affects of this

development" - give me a second, Mr. Chairman just get

you that and open it. It says;

"The level of interaction between factors as outlined

in Section 3 of the Regulations will be minimal and

cumulative effect of such interaction will not have a

significant negative impact on local environment".

If I may say, between the level of interaction between

the factors, the Department is talking about the

different elements of environmental impact such as

impact on human beings, fauna, flora, they are water

natural environment. It is not looking at the

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cumulation of affects from different activities. It is

not looking at the population equivalent, sewage impact

from this fish farm along the water discharge, waste

water discharge from the town of Bantry or along with

the nitrate pollution from agriculture sources. It is

misunderstanding the nature of accumulative affect and

it has not - there is no basis in the EIS for carrying

out a proper assessment of cumulative affects either.

There is also no assessment of indirect affects and

these were mentioned yesterday as well. The proposed

fish farm will need to be supplied with fish meal to

feed the salmon. These will come from fishing for

other fish. And there is no consideration of the

sustainability of that resource at a time when fish

stocks across the North Atlantic are very serious

decline. And that is an interaction which should have

been looked at and which should be assessed.

There is also the issue of potentially escaping salmon.

One of the major hypothesise for how salmon might

escape is if a vessel - if a vessel in difficulty were

to enter the bay, either on it's own steam or driven by

the wind, what would happen if it collided with the

with the fish farm? The developer's response to that

well that would probably be an oil tanker and that we

would have a much more significant problem on our hands

and the impact on the wild life in the area would be

the least of our concerns. Which struck me as a

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particularly flippant response, given that vessels

regularly get into difficulty along the south coast of

Ireland and England. And it is a matter of fortune

whether they would be blown into Bantry Bay as one of

the earliest places which they might arrive under

difficulty.

And the whole point of an EIA is that if something like

that is to happen you have already considered what the

likely impact would be. So that even if you are facing

an environmental catastrophe, of one form or another,

you can say at least we knew what the impact on the

fish farm would be and that this vessel colliding with

it would result in the escape of all the fish and what

we needed to do to get them back in before anything

happened.

The purpose of the EIA is to know in advance and to be

able to plan. And the outcome of the EIA maybe to say

well actually vessels do get blown into Bantry Bay if

their power fails and this is not the best place to put

this development. So the process of assessment may lead

to that conclusion but it does need to be assessed.

For those reasons I say that there isn't sufficient

data before you to carry out an EIA properly. If the

Board disagrees and considers that it has sufficient

data, I would ask it to ensure that it addresses those

issues in a very robust manner. And I will move on now

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to my water framework directive.

In a European court case C 461/2013 which is one of

many Bund for Naturschutz cases, the European Court

held at paragraph 51 that;

"Article 4 (1) (A) of 1 to 3 of the water framework

directive "must be interpreted as meaning that member

states are required unless a derogation is granted to

refuse authorisation for an individual project where it

may cause a deterioration of the status of a body of

surface water or where it jeopardises the attainment of

good surface water status or of good ecological

potential and good surface water chemical status by the

State laid down by directive which has passed".

So the Board's authorisation process must refuse a

licence if the grant of a licence may cause a

deterioration of the status of a body of surface water,

such as Bantry Bay or if it can jeopardise the

attainment of good water status or if it can jeopardise

good ecological potential.

In order to reach a conclusion on that, again the

Environmental Impact Assessment will have to identify,

describe and assess the impacts in those terms. And

once again, I say, there is not sufficient information

before the Board to enable it to conclude that this

project cannot cause such a deterioration.

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Just to close then with two comments in relation to

fair procedures which I possibly have mentioned at the

outset. I adopt the opening submissions from Tuesday

morning, my opening submission, as part of my

substantive submission in relation to the fairness of

the procedure. And I say also that the Board's initial

letter limiting Appellants to ten minute outlining of

their Appeal caused many of the Appellants to modify

what they intended to say, so that they said much less

than they would have wished. And I say that letter, in

spite of the leniency afforded by yourself, Mr.

Chairman, has resulted in a prejudice to many of the

Appellants in this case.

I would also point out that had I been notified of the

Appeals and my opportunity to make submissions on them,

I would have made a more substantial submission in

relation to the issue that arise in my submission

yesterday evening and today, simply an outline of the

many themes that I would have touched on.

Finally, Mr. Chairman, I would query whether it is

appropriate for you to recuse yourself from the Board

's deliberation of the Appeal, in circumstances where

the act provides for very specific balance of interest

groups to be represented on the Board. And the absence

of a member from one of those interest groups can

prejudice the proper balance of the Board. I have

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already made an argument I feel the balance itself is -

is not appropriate, that it leads to a structural bias.

But I would also point out that the act does not

provide for the Board to sit in in different chambers

or groupings and it only provides for the Board to go

ahead without an individual member where that member is

unable to attend which would not appear to be the case

in this instance.

And finally, An Taisce understands that the - that the

Minister may not have made any nomination to the Board

from the environmental panel on the last occasion that

candidates were proposed, that none of them were

accepted and the position remains empty. I would say if

that is the case and we are endeavouring to verify

that, then the institutional balance of the Board is

further - further altered and altered to the detriment

of the environmental conservation interest which it is

intended should be fully represented.

Unless the Chair has any questions for me that's my

submission on behalf of An Taisce, thank you.

(APPLAUSE)

MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Okay, thank you very much. If

we could hear from, I believe we have three Appellants

that we haven't heard from and these were three

Appellants who deferred, that was Save Bantry Bay, John

Brendan O'Keeffe and am I correct Galway Bay against

Salmon Cages? So, Save Bantry Bay.

MR. SWEETMAN: Can we have a microphone, please. Sorry,

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before we make our submission we would like to clarify

the position as this is an Appeal, to clarify the

position of the proposed person who purported to carry

out the original decision and where that is standing in

these proceedings?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Sorry, can I ask you to repeat, you want

to clarify which?

MR. SWEETMAN: What the position of the Department over

there is, who made the original decision which is

subject to the Appeal.

MR. CHAIRMAN: What do you mean what is their position?

MR. SWEETMAN: Well, are they going to give evidence?

Do they wish to give evidence?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Well, they will be called.

MR. SWEETMAN: As we are Appealing their decision we

will be quite willing after they have given their

evidence, we will discuss that after they have given

their evidence.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay. Do the other Appellants wish to

go at this stage? So can I call John Brendan O'Keeffe.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Doctor,

Professor. I have a few questions before I start might

help me to shorten my presentation.

In my Appeal I included a book by - a very small book

by an expert in salmon biology, Professor Clinton.

Have you read that book 'The Inflammation Nation' did

you read?

MR. CHAIRMAN: No, I haven't.

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MR. O'KEEFFE: So where does that go as far as evidence

for my reason for appealing?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Everything will be considered in the

determination of the Appeal. Everything submitted will

be considered in the determination of the Appeal.

MR. O'KEEFFE: But how can the Board members make a

decision without looking at the evidence?

MR. CHAIRMAN: The Board members will look at the

evidence, a decision hasn't been made yet.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Have they read it?

MR. CHAIRMAN: I can't speak for my colleagues.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Have they read any of the books I have

presented?

MS. O'HARA: I have them in the office for people,

yeah.

MR. O'KEEFFE: And have they read them?

MS. O'HARA: I can't confirm whether they have read

them.

MR. O'KEEFFE: I went to your office and I had to sign

in and out and I had a certain amount of material that

I was allowed to look at. When they come in do they go

through the same formality? So would you know whether

they read any of these Appeals?

MS. O'HARA: I have the documentation in the office.

Obviously, I mean, there is one copy of everything, so

the Board members will be reading all of them before

any determination is made. I can't say whether all of

them have been read or the DVDs have been looked at as

yet by every single member. But the determination

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hasn't been made.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Okay. The next question that might help

to shorten this is, you mentioned that you were a

Professor of Law at UCC, does that not include the

environment?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes, it does.

MR. O'KEEFFE: But you didn't say that.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I teach a number of things.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Pardon.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I teach environmental law and a range of

other subjects.

MR. O'KEEFFE: When you introduced yourself, when you

were asked to introduce yourself yesterday you didn't

mention the environment because this is very important

because you have written books on the environment and

--

MR. CHAIRMAN: Environmental law is one of my

specialties.

MR. O'KEEFFE: I think the audience need to know that

you are not just a Professor of Law but you are a

Professor of Environmental Law.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you for clarifying.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Thank you. I would like to start with a

statement made about ten years ago by a gentleman

called Edmond Grace. And he said;

"If trust in our system is to be restored elite

groups"- which I call you all elite or elitist, elite

- "would have to learn a new respect for those whom

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they serve but no one knows how to do this and it will

take time".

Well, we have had ten years since he has said it and

there is just more distrust and more disrespect. I am

reading from a list so of more or less of factoid of

this whole thing and if there is some things

unsubstantial or whatever term you use to - to

disqualify some information, just let me know.

But the first factoid is that no health conscious

person should eat farm salmon or organic farm salmon.

Organic farm salmon and farm salmon should have a

warning label. Organic farm salmon is an oxymoron,

most perfect example of an oxymoron. Women of child

bearing age should not eat farm salmon or organic farm

salmon. And this was discussed by the European Food

Safety Authority and in their preamble they could not

agree, after spending €24 million, they could not agree

as to whether to tell women of child bearing age

whether or not to eat farm salmon six months before

they get pregnant or twelve months before they become

pregnant. That defies any logic.

Elderly people should not eat organic farm salmon.

People taking medications should not eat farm salmon

and healthy active individuals should be cautious when

they eat farm salmon.

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Now, if you put this label on meat poultry, I don't

think the public would accept it. But the deception

and the mislabelling of the farm salmon enables it to

stay on the market. To stay on the question of the

pearl mussel and the local environments surrounding the

Dromagowlane River and some of the SACs in that area, I

would like to, I hope to be able to put it up there.

The well boat that goes up and down in front of my

house on a daily basis, maybe twice a day, now it has

600 cubic metres per well. So that boat carries 12

hundred cubic metres of water and it goes twice a day

to once a day and maybe skip a day. I have calculated

that it has taken over 4 million cubic metres of water

from the quarry from Tarmac Fleming Quarry over the 12

years I have been watching it.

Now, to go to the quarry, it's in the the Lee Hill SAC

area. Now, when they finished using the quarry for

mining gravel and stone, they were down 150 feet they

were allowed, they went in grades of 50. When they got

to the last 50 they were 350, 50's permitted. And the

last 50 they had to pump the water out of the quarry or

what was a quarry, what was originally a mountain. So

you talk about West Virginia in west Cork but they took

the top off the mountain, then went down a 150 feet

because that was the level of the tide. However, they

had to pump the water out. So, they are pumping the

water out. It has to be coming from below and it is

coming up from the water table and that water table is

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from the SAC area. Now, this is new information so I

can give it to you later to include it in our Appeal.

Now, I can count 20 households that have their own

wells. Now, I have had drastic changes in my well and

contacted the County Council and they said "well, if

you think there is something wrong with it or polluted

why don't you check it yourself". That is the trust and

respect we get.

Now, when they fill the boat, they go to whichever

salmon farm they have, they are treating a disease on

that day and they wash the fish. Now, we know they put

the fish in the water. I mean, they just don't sit

there and look at it and go back. They put the fish in

the water, sometimes with chemicals, sometimes it is

just the diseased fish. But, you know, salmon have to

go to the bathroom and they shed disease. And if they

are being treated with chemicals, the chemicals get in

the holding areas of the boat, where they are being

washed. And if - if they are not using chemicals in

the water, the fish maybe eating chemicals as a

treatment for the lice or whatever.

So when I ask people who were even involved in giving a

licence, if there is such a thing as a licence for

dumping at sea, they tell me "oh but that's freshwater

they took it out of the quarry, that is freshwater that

they are dumping in the bay". Now, how could it be

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freshwater? Definitely you wouldn't want to put it in

your whiskey. If you go, if you pull it back to water

you can drink that. But when you finish bathing you

can't drink it. If they are only bathing the fish that

is not drinkable and it is toxic, it is sewage and it

is dumped on a regular basis, all pipes go through it,

three pipes. Now, they don't do it out here any more,

they don't like being photographed, they do it above at

the jetty in front of the quarry. That must be the most

polluted part of the bay and that is a lot to be said

since Castletownbere is a world class polluter.

Now, if they are allowed to put the salmon farm at Shot

Head some of that, there is a dispersion map drawn

which goes around the corner of Shot Head and into the

estuary of the Dromagowlane River. Now, if the tide is

out when this procedure goes ahead and then comes in

with this weak inflow and outflow it is going to be

carried up into the estuary which is referred to as the

Trafrask River, that is a new one but up to the

Dromagowlane River where the pearl mussels are present.

Now, I have a question at this stage, Mr. Chairman,

have you visited the Dromagowlane River?

MR. CHAIRMAN: No, I haven't

MR. O'KEEFFE: Have you visited Shot Head?

MR. CHAIRMAN: No, I haven't

MR. O'KEEFFE: Well, I have some pictures. I know

trying to manipulate this is going to be time consuming

but I think it's important.

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You are not the only one that hasn't visited the

Dromagowlane River. I don't think Marine Harvest has,

Marine Institute, Bord Uisce Mhara, Mr. Neil Bass --

DR. BASS: Yes, I have.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Oh you have.

DR. BASS: Yes, I have, many times.

MR. O'KEEFFE: More about that later. Before or after

you wrote the Environmental Impact Study?

MR. BASS: I was certainly down at Trafrask Pier before

I had finished the environmental statement, yes, I have

been down since.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Did you see a river?

MR. BASS: From the pier it is very difficult to assess

exactly how --

MR. O'KEEFFE: I didn't say to "assess" the river. I

said "did you see a river"?

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am going to stop this here. You will

have an opportunity to question --

MR. O'KEEFFE: He didn't answer my question or --

MR. CHAIRMAN: This is the last question then we move

on. Because I have to say, you know, we have heard a

lot about fairness and procedure. We are running

rapidly out of time and a lot of people have not been

heard yet.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Mr. Doyle got two hours.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes, yes, I am asking you to move it

along, please.

MR. O'KEEFFE: If he answered the question I asked then

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we can move it along.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Please do.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Did you see a river, not assess it, did

you see it?

DR. BASS: Yes, I saw the river.

MR. O'KEEFFE: I have a question for the legal minds

here, the definition of fraud, the definition of fraud

is quite wide and if you withhold information that

could be fraud. Or if you misrepresent something or if

you take photographs to misrepresent an area, can we

have information on that, is that fraud?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Can I ask you to proceed with your

presentation.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Okay. This is a picture of the

Dromagowlane River. And the other - when - fraud can

be a very loose term but anyone that caused this a

small river - for those who haven't visited it.

Just point of information, my qualifications here is

that I grew up - I was born in Glengarriff and I grew

up on the banks of the Erriff River which is half the

size of the Dromagowlane and we joked that we learned

to count sitting on the timber bridge counting the

salmon going under that bridge.

Now, if the Dromagowlane - anyone that tries to say

that the Dromagowlane is not a salmon river is trying

to, at least, deceive.

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Now, there is another issue I would like to illustrate

here and it is how the authorities cook the books and I

say that with commitment. And the first slide I will

show you, to show you how the books are cooked, is the

Glengarriff Harbour which is part of Bantry Bay has raw

sewage going into the bay as does Castletown and every

village and town on Bantry Bay. However, the people who

are under the impression that everything is okay

because the water samples come up less than 10

coliforms per hundred mls. Now, this is the sewer going

in in Glengarriff Harbour, untreated and because the

people have been told that the water is just pure,

about three years ago they put in a swimming area and a

pontoon about a hundred metres to the left of this

picture. Now, further on this slide I'll show you

where the where the County Council, where they took the

samples. Here we go, that spot up there the purple spot

that designates where they took the water. Down at the

bottom here you have the harbour, that is a stream that

comes off the mountain and it is at the land side of

the bridge. The sewage is over here on the left corner

of the picture, the raw sewage. And that's - that is

what the agglomeration report says that is where they

took the sample. Nowm there is another sample and it

is out at the tip of - the turn where you go around

the harbour, probably the next cleanest water you could

find in Bantry Bay.

So, when they take samples like that, now there are

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samples that have shown astronomical and we have them

but I am not going to bore you with the ones we did but

it was like there is something wrong here because we

were getting 9,000/ 10,000 coliforms per 100 mls.

Now, it says, one of the factoids here is that it is an

industry rule that unwritten regulation that a salmon

farm should be a certain distance away from a river

because of the pearl mussel and the trout and the

salmon. And that's how we came to find that the EIS had

excluded the Dromagowlane River. Now, the question was

it be design or was it by just plain neglect?

The young salmon receive three vaccinations. They are

picked up and injected on three occasions during their

life span. Now, why they have to be vaccinated and what

kind of disease they are being vaccinated against is

scarry enough but all vaccines contain either mercury

or alluminum. And we can't find anywhere because of

their conference secrets anything to tell us what is in

those vaccines. But most of them have an adjunct to

stimulate the host's immunity to make - to have the

salmon react to the vaccine. This may account for the

amount of toxic chemicals that are found in farm salmon

or organic farm salmon.

Now, when we talk about cooking the books, the report

from Marine Institute, sorry I omitted this when I was

talking about the condition and the number of coliforms

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found in Bantry Bay and in Glengarriff Harbour and this

is a report from the Cork County Council in 2014. It

says;

"However, the number of sea classifications standard

results in the Bantry Bay inner area is a cause for

significant concern especially when one considers that

one of those results was greater than 18,000 MPNs

E-coli per hundred grammes of shellfish flesh and

inter-valthera fluid".

Now, we have other government entities who promote and

police this industry. How could that be when we are

told all is well? Anybody wants that, they can have

it.

The other bit of cooking that goes on here, I have a

report from contaminants and residue in Irish seafood.

And it shows that in 2003 it was off the chart compared

with the others. Yet when they put out the report it

was 2004 to 2008, so this was and I ask the industry

experts, I said "is there a name for this type of

behaviour?" "Yes, it is called paring" as in paring a

stick or a pencil.

And the same thing has happened with the follow up

report from 2008 to 2012. And I will call it cherry

picking but the industry name for it is "paring".

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Might I add, at this stage, that the pearl mussel and

why I mention health issues and food safety and health

safety is because we are not pearl mussels and this is

not the only thing that's being endangered by this type

of activity.

The pearl mussel has a hard shell and it can filter

toxins and metals and chemicals. Unfortunately, human

beings don't have that facility. We are thin skinned

and we have a thing called the blood brain barrier.

And this stuff, when you consume it in your food, goes

straight to your brain. Is it any wonder we have the

amount of cancer and autism and Alzheimer's and

actually, according to the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, Stephanie, she has traced autism and

suicide and criminality to consuming this type of food.

And even though the farm salmon doesn't leave an

obvious footprint what a footprint is that you know a

smoker will get lung cancer, somebody that inhales

asbestos will get asbestosis and metacoeloma. People

who took that thalidomide, had children without limbs.

So you say "oh, there is a footprint, we know, so we

know what causes it". But in - with the farm salmon

there is no footprint, it just mills in like terrorists

mills into the milieu of diseases. And on top of that

but where we will learn something is that when you take

somebody who is not well and you take them off of the

farm seafood or the farmed Atlantic salmon, they get

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better. So, I call this the reverse footprint. Now

this has been done --

MR. CHAIRMAN: Sorry, Mr. O'Keeffe, I have to ask you

if you can move this along.

MR. O'KEEFFE: I am moving this along --

MR. CHAIRMAN: You have made the point, your health

concerns in relation to the food produced by --

MR. O'KEEFFE: Ten years and ten minutes, I have been

ten years at this and now I get, I was supposed to get

ten minutes.

MR. CHAIRMAN: You have had very much more than ten

minutes, very much more that ten minutes.

MR. O'KEEFFE: So has everybody else but if you don't

like --

MR. CHAIRMAN: For the fairness of this process and I

am now becoming very concerned about the fairness of

the process to ensure that everyone gets heard.

MR. O'KEEFFE: The fairness of the process, the people

--

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am simply asking you to make your

points quickly and succinctly, please.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Right, the devil is in the detail.

There are two centres in the United States where they

treat Alzhimer's disease and their protocol under Mr.

Or Professor Bredesen says "no farmed fish" and Tuffs

University and who have a Nobel laureate on their team,

they have specifically stated and I have the document

here, they specifically state; "no farm Atlantic

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salmon".

There we go, first yo "eliminate all simple

carbohydrates, gluten, processed food" --

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am sorry, going to have to make the

point again, that we are not here to go through the

science of food safety. And, you know, whether there

are links between certain types of food and Alzhimer's,

we don't have time for that. I doubt that any oral

hearing of this sort could possibly have time for that.

What I am going to ask you again --

MR. O'KEEFFE: I want to comment on that too, the

last time I was in this room it was - it was for the

hearing for the Whiddy disaster. And the inquest and

what not, is it 50 people lost their life tragically.

I think this project at Shot Head could theoretically

claim more lives and you want to limit it. I mean if

you don't want to hear it the public are the ones who

should be hearing it.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I need to ask you, if you want to round

up on your key points relevant to this Appeal.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Well, now the fisherman have reported

that fish caught around farm salmon are much heavier

and fatter and of a different colour than fish in the

open ocean.

Now, for safety reasons when fishing farm salmon are

treated with chemicals, there is a washout period for a

hundred days but this fish that, the opportunist, who -

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fish that feed around the farm salmon are harvested and

processed and sent out to the public without any

washout period. That was something that I would like

Marine Harvest, are they doing anything about that and

if they have any thing to say or have the warned the

fish processors of this fact?

Now, the question of TBT came up yesterday, I

introduced it yesterday and people were asked what is

TBT? Well, TBT is a - it's a component of the fouling

paint used to foul boats. This leaches into the water

and I have the report from the engineers who did the

survey for the enlargement of Danish Ireland and they

reported this.

Now, the first layer of sludge was set in concrete and

taken to Germany for disposal. The second --

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am sorry, I am sorry, Mr. O'Keeffe it

wasn't relevant yesterday and it is not relevant today.

MR. O'KEEFFE: It is not relevant? I

MR. CHAIRMAN: It is not relevant. I have to go on, I

have other people to hear from. I have given you as

much time as is reasonable. I have asked you to try

and wound up the points that you wish to make that are

relevant to this oral hearing and to this Appeal. TBT

is not--

MR. CHAIRMAN: Mr. Chairman, I have read part of your

books and --

MR. CHAIRMAN: That is not relevant either.

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MR. O'KEEFFE: I think it is.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am afraid it is not.

MR. O'KEEFFE: So you can say one thing and do

something else?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Sorry, my role here is to try and make

sure this oral hearing moves along and everybody gets a

chance to speak. So, I am sorry, I am going to have to

go on and I am going to have call Galway Bay Against

Salmon Cages, thank you.

MR. CARR: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will attempt to

be as brief as possible. Firstly, could I object to

and place on record my view that this Oral

Hearing/Appeal is severely limited in it's scope and

procedures involved.

If I could make a short opening remark and say when I

first read the technical advisor's report, Dr. Graham

Saunders, I am indebted to him in regard to that part

of his report and learnt that the nearest river to the

proposed site, the Dromagowlane containing salmonids

and the important pearl mussel was not included in the

EIS. I immediately thought this was an appauling vista

or was it an incompetence? Was it overlooked or was it

arrogance or an attempt to deflect away from important

environmental considerations.

On mature reflection and after seeing yesterday's

stonewalling by senior Department officials on the

question of releasing a three year old report in regard

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to the loss of 230,000 farm salmon in Bantry Bay, at a

site which I understand is 1 kilometre away from this

proposed site, I wonder whether I should also have

considered their involvement in a serious time lapse in

publicising the EIS.

I think a key question to be asked now, what date was

this EIS compiled? And in view of the matters of

scientific knowledge, since the date of that, whether

it was ten years ago or 15 years ago and at the fast

pace of scientific knowledge and the impact of climate

change, I would like to know what date was this EIS

compiled?

In moving on then and dealing with the three matters

that you have established this oral hearing for, in

dealing with the nature and risks, firstly to salmonids

in the Dromagowlane River, I note that people have

highlighted the question of lice and their movements. I

think a very important basic matter is the movement of

salmonids boats and whether they have been monitored in

Bantry Bay. Do they, when they come out of the rivers,

do they go north? Do they go south? Do they do both?

Do they stay awhile in the bay and meet up with their

friends and being social animals then head off after a

period of time out through the bay? I don't believe

that the EIS provides this important information.

A second matter is in regard to the smolts, I note that

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Alan Kelly mentioned that they go close or under the

cages. It is my contention that some of them go

through the cages. I would like to know what is to

prevent them from entering the cages? What controls

are in place to stop other wild fish from entering

these open cages and being eaten by farm salmon? I

have recently seen a video from Dr. Alexander Morton in

British Columbia Canada which clearly shows descending

smolts from Canadian river, I think it was the Fraser

River being eaten by the farm salmon in cages, open

cages.

In regard to that, I would have to question, therefore,

having regard to the common fishery policy whether this

loss of wild fish is considered part of quotas for

fishery policy, having regard to their loss as to why

fish farmers should be allowed to use free fish in

their - in their feeding of their stocks and other

fishermen would have to include them in their quota.

Moving on then in regard to recent scientific papers,

Dr. Paddy Gargan has mentioned more recent scientific

information which he mentioned, I think Finstad and

Thorstad but the high density of salmon in cages has

provided a high number of potential hosts and promotes

the transmission and population growth of the parasite

as a result salmon farming has been shown to increase

the abundance of lice in the marine environment. And,

of course, this impacts on wild salmonids, both salmon

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and sea trout.

And I would also refer to a recent papers, published

just in December 2016, I am not sure if it has been

peer reviewed yet, it is by Paddy Gargan and others.

And it is the 'Temporal variation in sea trout,

historical traits in the Erriff River', I will of

course give the information to the stenograph. And

basically what that says in layman's language, that

there was a positive relationship between the number of

salmon lice in salmon farms and the number of lice

found in sea trout.

And moving on then to the second - the associated

impacts on the pearl water mussel obviously, as we have

heard yesterday, that the demise of salmon and sea

trout, the wild salmon and sea trout and their

reduction in stocks going up a river, would obviously

have an effect on the freshwater pearl mussel that the

less wild salmonids means the less pearl mussel.

In regard to the third item on your agenda, in regard

to the robustness of the applicant's integrated pest

management plan or plans for single bay management, I

am perturbed in a way that this would be on your

agenda, given the fact that CLAMS is a voluntary

management tool. And if we examine the existing single

bay management for Bantry Bay, I am sorry, there isn't

one. Even though there has been fish farming in Bantry

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Bay for quite a number of years, I would ask the

question why is there no existing single bay management

plan in Bantry Bay?

If I might refer to a recent decision of the

Commissioner for the Environmental Information under an

Appeal, brought by Billy Smyth of Galway Bay against

Salmon Cages against the Marine Harvest and the Marine

Institute. Briefly what it was, that Galway Bay

against Salmon Cages had sought information on diseases

and Marine Institute and Marine Harvest and I have to

be careful that I differentiate between the two, though

it can be difficult at times, that the refusal because

of commercial information was not accepted by the

Commissioner. He found that the refusal was not

justified and the Commissioner annulled the Institute's

decision and required it to make the withheld

environmental information available to the Appellant.

I would suggest that the attitude of both Marine

Harvest and the Marine Institute in accepting Marine

Harvest's reasoning does not look like that single bay

management is something that Marine Harvest welcome or

join in with.

There are other matters that time doesn't allow me to

go into in regard to single bay management, they are

well booked and the affects of chemicals and that they

use. I would make the point that, I understand that

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the Finfish, salmon Finfish industry uses nets on top

of their cages to prevent birds damaging their stock.

Seals in Scotland and possibly here in Ireland but I

wonder how do they prevent and what may be a sizeable

amounts of juvenile of wild fish from entering their

installations and being eaten by their salmonids I

referred to.

Could I say that, finally, I would ask that this

proposal should be rejected, taken into consideration

the following; the more up-to-date scientific evidence

and peer review papers of recent years, that proved

beyond that doubt that lice from salmon farms impact on

wild salmon and sea trout. That the reduction of wild

salmon, will impact - or wild salmonids, will impact

and reduce if not threaten the survival of an important

and threatened species, namely the freshwater pearl

mussel. And with no existing single bay management and

unlikely to be one in the future, that the lack of one

would constitute gross negligence in salmon farm

management.

I would also like to say to Marine Harvest, I would

seriously suggest that they contact BIM and learn from

them the process for withdrawing an application, accept

that scientific evidence has caught up with their

discredited industry and they make arrangements now to

exit Ireland over a short timeframe as is practical,

thank you. (APPLAUSE)

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MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you very much. We have one

Appellant left and that is Save Bantry Bay but they

have requested to go after the - after the Department.

So, at this stage, I would like to ask Marine Harvest

Ireland if they wish to challenge the Appellants

arguments and to provide any other relevant

information.

MS. MCMANUS: Hello --

MR. FEENSTRA: Excuse me, could I ask for this slide to

be taken down, I think it is disrespectful to the Chair

and ALAB.

MR. O'KEEFFE: That is a PDF by the author of the EI --

MR. FEENSTRA: It is inappropriate.

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MR. FEENSTRA: You put it up there.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Mr. O'Keeffe, can I ask you to take it

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MR. O'KEEFFE: I just wanted to display the attitude to

the environment. This room is full of environmental

hit men.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Excuse me one second, I am going to

switch off the projector.

MS. O'HARA: Yes.

MS. MCMANUS: Thank you for this opportunity to for us

to try and address some of the concerns of the various

presentations from yesterday to today.

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What we intend to do is split our responses between

myself and Dr. Neil Bass. And if I could I would just

like to begin with the topic of public participation

which the first presenter yesterday raised concerns,

that it was inadequate.

Just to say at the outset, at the very beginning, prior

to compilation of the EIS the company undertook a

scoping exercise, actually as far as we know is not a

requirement under Irish Aquaculture and Environmental

Legislation but we did it anyway because --

MR. BOYDEN: Sorry, Mr. Chair, I am not able to

understand because of feedback issues. Maybe she could

change position somewhere or for that to be rectified.

A lot of hissing.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Is it better to use this microphone

here? Is this clear?

MR. SWEETMAN: It is probably the reaction to a mobile

phone.

MR. CHAIRMAN: It sounded okay here.

MR. SWEETMAN: There is a buzzing.

MR. CHAIRMAN: There is a buzzing generally.

MS. MCMANUS: Hello, is this any better? Just to go

back, we would just like to start with the issue of

public participation and some concerns yesterday that

we didn't take into consideration the views of various

stake holders. At the outset before - prior to

compilation of the EIS we undertook a scoping exercise

and as far as we know that there is actually no

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requirement for this under the Irish Aquaculture and

Environmental legislation but we did it anyway because

we wanted to get a range of views from various parties.

And in that we consulted with more than sixty stake

holders group, organisations and individuals and we

really did our best to try and incorporate as wide a

field as stakeholders as possible beginning with

statutory consultees, professional bodies and other

associations including charities and local business and

commercial interests and private individuals and other

interests in this area. And we also included there was

concerns in relation to the impact on tourism. And we

did include Tourism Ireland, Failte Ireland in the

scoping exercise. And that really formed the basis

then of the structure of the EIS from there on in.

Subsequent then to - subsequent participation, when

our application was lodged in 2011 and it was

advertised then in early 2012, it was actually wildly

advertised in a number of local newspapers and at least

two national newspapers and in addition all subsequent

information sought by AMD section of the Department of

Agriculture Food & Marine was also published. All

information and documents relating to this application

were and still available on the Marine Harvest website,

we haven't taken anything down. We have endeavoured,

where possible, to try and address the concerns of all

the stakeholders who did participate in the

consultation period.

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So, if I just may hand over now to Dr. Neil Bass who

will discuss other concerns.

MR. SWEETMAN: Actually can we comment on that before

we change to keep it in a tight frame? Can we comment

on her submission before we go to the next one and keep

it tight?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay, sorry, yes.

MR. SWEETMAN: Thank you very much for that, you

actually endorsed my position completely. Because your

public consultation that you dealt with was dealt with

under the regulations of the 1997 act. The public

consultation part was specifically amended under the EU

directive 2003/35 and was also amended under directive

97/11, neither of these were transposed into the

aquaculture legislation. And I would like to thank you

for making my point so clearly in your submission,

thank you.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you.

DR. BASS: Good morning. My name is Neil Bass, I think

you now know, I have been involved with aquaculture in

Ireland for the best part of 40 years primarily in the

area of salmon farming and environmental studies.

My task in this case has been as a result of a

commission from Marine Harvest Ireland, my client, to

make a technical analysis as to whether Bantry Bay and

specifically Shot Head could sustainably support a

salmon farm site in the Shot Head head area.

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The EIS required to be submitted as I think Catherine

has already pointed out to you, was actually written

seven years ago and was submitted six years ago. It is

a consequence of the licensing system under which this

process has gone forward that it has taken so long to

reach that point. I think that is regrettable for

everybody here.

New methodologies have been developed and perfected

during this time. And to the best of our ability we

have updated information on the basis of instruction

that has been given to us from the licensing body

arising from communication with both statutory and

public consultations.

We have heard verbal accounts from a number of

Appellants, both yesterday and today. And my job now

is to make some further observations on these as

quickly as I can. Many of the items raised comments

concerned from many Appellants and, therefore, what I

would like to do, is to deal with individual issues by

Appellants first and then to look at the common

concerns later.

From what I heard the main concerns arise from current

circulation in Bantry Bay. So, therefore, I will be

across the hydrodynamic model that was developed, the

dispersion model and the dispersion of lice and

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discharges from the site which will all be dealt with

through a brief explanation of dispersion model and

pearl mussel.

Catherine has already commented on the first submission

which was made yesterday. So, I will move on from that

to the second submission yesterday which was from the

O'Shea family who described the importance of their

vessels in potting activities around the Shot Head

site. I have commented on their submission in the past

with reference to the best information available to me

and it was observed that much of the site area is over

rock and gravel, limiting the area as suitable ground

under the site area itself quite specifically. Although

I do note from maps that were supplied by Marine

Institute, that whilst some of the site areas are

included, there is fishing, potting grounds to the

south of the site and elsewhere in quite significant

quantity at the eastern end of Bantry Bay both on the

north and south shores. As a result it was submitted

that, I submitted, by my estimate, that approximately

.45 percent was taken up by this site and I suggested

this this was a reasonable splitting of the resources

amongst the stakeholders in the bay.

I would also like to go on to assure the O'Shea family

on the view that has been expressed about cooperation

between salmon farming enterprises and pots men and

other fishermen and this is exemplified by what goes on

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around the Roan, Carrig and Aherbeg sites where there

is much cooperation and in fact there is potting going

up pretty well to the edge of the pens as and when

required.

I move on to salmon trust, Mr. Boyden's comments, he

has specific issue --

MR. BOYDEN: Point of order, Mr. Chairman?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.

MR. BOYDEN: I am representing the Coomhola Salmon and

Trout Anglers Association. I am --

MR. SWEETMAN: Hold on for a mic, we can't hear you.

MR. BOYDEN: Mr. Chair, I just want to make it clear

Dr. Bass I am here representing Coomhola Salmon and

Trout Anglers Association, okay.

DR. BASS: Thank you, Mr. Boyden. Thank you, Mr.

Boyden.

At this point I wish only to allude to the point made

by Mr. Boyden that the production figure for the site

was 3,000 tonnes per annum. In fact, it isn't 3,000

tonnes per annum it is 3,500 tonnes every two years.

He equated his 3,000 tonnes per annum figure to an

equivalent of 60,000 people living on the shores of

Bantry Bay.

In fact, no direct equivalence can be drawn in

particular on grounds of weight alone between the

impact of a salmon farm and a number of human beings in

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this way, for a whole raft of reasons. Perhaps the

primary one is the analysis of the feed being eaten and

the feed conversion rate involved and the feed and feed

composition. Suffice it to say, however, that far and

away the major input into any Irish bay is from

agriculture. And probably in the range of 80 to 85

percent of nitrogen in the case of Bantry Bay.

More to the point, the objective of this application

documentation has been to demonstrate, via two separate

mordern methodologies, that the proposed site and the

salmon farming operation would not breach any EQS for

any nutrient indicator or for that matter medications

or lice and these issues will be addressed later but

nonetheless thank you, Mr. Boyden, for that comment.

MR. BOYDEN: Just a point of order, please?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.

MR. BOYDEN: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Bass, could

you on the corrected figures of three and a half tonne

every two year and allowing for different feed

conversion rates and metabolic rates, could you correct

my assumption of an unsewered population of 60,000

people? Could you, I presume downwardly revise that

figure? But could you put it, an equivalent human

population figure on that - on that figure of three and

a half thousand tonne every two years?

DR. BASS: Through the Chair, I wonder, I notice that

all the Appellants were given the opportunity to say

their pieces by and large without interruption. I am

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trying to make a --

MR. CHAIRMAN: No, that is fair enough. I thought it

was fair to allow somebody to correct who they were

representing, I thought that was perfectly fair when he

said that. I think we could take up these points after

the presentation.

MR. SWEETMAN: Sorry, Mr. Inspector, this is very -

sorry I will talk anyway, use my political voice. This

is very strange what we are doing now. We are getting

evidence, evidence, amendments to an EIS basically.

DR. BASS: No, incorrect.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Actually, no, the licence Applicant has

been asked to respond to issues raised.

MR. SWEETMAN: Yes but he is also producing new

evidence.

DR. BASS: Incorrect.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I don't remember hearing any new

evidence.

MR. SWEETMAN: I think so, I think they are heading

that way.

MS. MCMANUS: No.

MR. SWEETMAN: Okay, okay, if they are not going to

head that way.

MR. O'KEEFFE: He mentioned "pearl mussels".

MR. SWEETMAN: That is allowed.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Can we proceed, please.

DR. BASS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think before I go

any further what I want to point out very strongly,

what we are talking about here is an assessment of

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Bantry Bay. This is just about Bantry Bay.

MR. SWEETMAN: No, it is not.

DR. BASS: This is about a scientific assessment of

whether or not a salmon farm of a given size in a

different location is a sustainable prospect for Bantry

Bay. That is what we are here to discuss as far as I

am aware. So that is what I am going to discuss.

MR. O'DONOVAN: Sorry, Mr. Chairman on a point of order

there --

DR. BASS: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, I would like to --

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am going to take questions

afterwards.

MR. O'DONOVAN: There are three, there are three points

on your Agenda that are down for discussion. What he

is talking about is not on your agenda that was given

out.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I think what he is referring to, if I

understand him, addressing all three points on our

agenda.

MR. O'DONOVAN: Sorry, but I disagree with you. He is

expanding on the whole thing about Bantry Bay, what

the reason for this meeting is to discuss the pearl

mussel in the Dromagowlane river.

MR. SWEETMAN: What he is trying to discuss is

something that was fundamentally lacking from the EIS,

which was the accumulative effects on this development,

that is what he is trying to mend. That was not in the

EIS and as such is not relevant, he can't say I am

going to now talk about accumulative affects. Before

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he goes to the accumulative affects, I would like to

put - I will do it later, he is trying to mend

something which is not in - fundamental error in the

EIS which was the dealing of accumulative affects. And

the cumulative affects are not restricted to Bantry Bay

which he has just said.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am going to allow him to proceed until

I think he goes beyond what he said because there is

already a contradiction in what you said Mr. Sweetman.

He is either dealing with cumulative affects which

include Bantry Bay or go beyond Bantry Bay or not. He

said he is not addressing cumulative affects to the

effect that you would like them to be addressed --

MR. SWEETMAN: No, no, I am not allowing him to address

cumulative affects because cumulative affects was

something that was not in his EIS and if he is going to

produce a paper on cumulative affects that has to be

circulated for public consultation --

MR. CHAIRMAN: Absolutely, no, I agree with you. I am

not circulating any paper.

MR. SWEETMAN: No, not up for discussion cumulative

affects are not up for discussion because they are not

in the EIS and if --

MR. CHAIRMAN: Cumulative affects may be discussed to

the extent they have been raised by Appellants here.

MR. SWEETMAN: No, no, sorry, sorry, sorry, Sir, sorry

sorry, Sir --

MR. CHAIRMAN: This was raised, this was raised by An

Taisce.

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DR. BASS: Mr. Chairman, could I please just make the

point that the agenda which we received on Friday last

week, a couple of working days ago, has as item 3;

"Licence holder Marine Harvest Ireland if they wish to

challenge the Appellants arguments and provide any

other relevant information". That is the task for this

section. Not unfortunately as item 3 on this Agenda

has turned out but that is what we have been tasked to

do now.

Marine Harvest had a further opportunity to issues

raised by the Board under Section 47 of the Fisheries

Amendment Act, 15 minutes at the end of this Agenda.

All we are doing is complying with the Agenda which we

have had for a couple of working days.

MR. SWEETMAN: Can I come back on that, please?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.

MR. SWEETMAN: Firstly, can you turn off your mic, we

are still here because of the major amendment to the

Agenda that we are now trying to comply with certain

laws, right. Normally - normally under the 2003/35

directive you were to implement, the developer

produces evidence, right rather than criticise. The

criticism comes later, right. But at the moment the

only mentions to cumulative affects yesterday were from

the audience was and I included and Mr. Doyle included,

that they were completely lacking from the EIS. So,

therefore, any mention of them right is extending

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beyond the thing because there was no proper treatment

of cumulative affects and in fact no treatment at all

of cumulative affects in the EIS.

And I think, for example, as it stands at the moment,

thanks to the Department, it is impossible for Dr. Bass

here to actually address the cumulative affects because

he doesn't have, I presume he doesn't have the -

document on the escapees. And what the escapee

document, which has been kept secret for some reason

could show, that this site is much worse than the one

we got, we don't know that. And therefore the

Department has deliberately kept the public in the dark

here. I don't know if Marine Harvest have seen that

document but without seeing it, they cannot ascertain

that - that - their site they have chosen is safer than

the one where the 300,000 salmon escaped from.

MR. CHAIRMAN: If we stick to cumulative affects, Mr.

Sweetman, what I was going to say --

MR. SWEETMAN: I don't want to stick to them at all.

MR. CHAIRMAN: The fact that cumulative affects were

raised by An Taisce, who pointed out that the EIS did

not deal with cumulative affects --

MR. SWEETMAN: Yes.

MR. CHAIRMAN: -- to the extent that the Applicant

would like to contest that point, I will hear him.

MR. SWEETMAN: Okay, yes, if he can point as to where

he dealt with it.

MR. CHAIRMAN: That is the extent it will be dealt

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DR. BASS: Can I do that please, Mr. Chairman?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.

DR. BASS: Because we seem to be somewhat at odds here,

in the sense that part of my task, as it set down the

list of things that must be addressed in the EIS was to

address the cumulative affects on Bantry Bay. This was

done in the EIS by the use of box modelling and the

standard technique that applies in this area. It was

further addressed by completely separate modelling

exercise, a much more accurate modelling exercise that

if you like, if you will, it colour in the patches

rather more than simply dealing with a boxed model by

the use of a development of a calibrated hyperdynamic

model and a dispersion model which was subsequently

issued and was submitted as part of the information, as

part of this EIS application process.

One of the points here is that we only had the

hydrodynamic model and dispersion model study in, it

really only started as a technology for us at about the

time the EIS was being written which was seven years

ago. So consequently it was submitted later and I

apologise for this. I should just say on that point

that, as far as we are aware right now, that

hydrodynamic and dispersion model is not on the MHI

web-site. It will certainly be on the MHI web-site. If

nobody has looked at it and they are concerned about

the addressing of cumulative affects, I would sincerely

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ask that they look at that model as soon as it is

available on the Marine Harvest web-site.

MR. SWEETMAN: Sorry, Mr. Inspector, I have to object

now, I just have to object, I have to object to this.

The information we are now being told is not on the

Marine Harvest web-site it will go up on it later after

the hearing. I just - this is just unbelievable stuff

coming Marine Harvest.

MR. CHAIRMAN: If you allow me, I have a question for

Marine Harvest. And the question, the question if I am

correct you are saying cumulative affects were

addressed in the EIS?

DR. BASS: Yes, that is correct.

MR. CHAIRMAN: By box modelling and also by a

calobrated hydrodynamic model?

DR. BASS: The point I am making is that because the

EIS is now so old that was addressed subsequently.

That information was circulated as part of the overall

application package.

MR. SWEETMAN: Not on the web-site.

DR. BASS: Could I ask, for example, Mr. Saunders is he

aware of that hydrodynamic model and couple dispersion

model?

MR. SAUNDERS: Yes, I am and I did receive it, that was

the subsequent report that was sent from - subsequent

report that was done, supplementary report that was

done by RPS, is that correct?

DR. BASS: Yes, that is correct.

MR. SAUNDERS: Yes, I did receive it and I did consider

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DR. BASS: Can I ask the Marine Institute if they

received it and whether that made up part of their

consideration?

MR. SWEETMAN: Sorry, Mr. Inspector, it doesn't matter

whether the Marine Institute received it or not, the

general public did not and this is public consultation,

it is not a closed shop between the Marine Institute

and the Department and all the people who are pro

salmon, madly, religiously pro salmon farming. The

public were not given this document and the fact that

Mr. Saunders got it, how did you get it? Sorry, how

did you get it Mr. Saunders? On paper?

MR. SAUNDERS: I received it as part of the full

package that was sent to me for consideration by

Aquaculture License Board.

MR. SWEETMAN: Lovely, thank you. My client's, right,

who made an objection to this document, were never made

aware of this document. This is a fundamental,

fundamental flaw in the whole thing. I must thank

Marine Harvest for bringing it to the attention of the

hearing that they failed miserably.

DR. BASS: I just like to say, Mr. Chairman, I don't

see that as being a fault of Marine Harvest, all this

information was submitted in good faith to the

aquaculture and foreshore management division as part

of this process. And Marine Harvest would surely have

expected that to have been made available at least all

the Appellants if not further afield.

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MR. SWEETMAN: I am very sorry it wasn't and that is

it.

MS. O'HARA: Was it part of the Section 47 request?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Was this the original license

application?

MS. O'HARA: If it was the original license the copy

and papers that all Appellants lodged was copied to

every party. So, I think it may have been part of the

Section 47 information.

DR. BASS: Yes, it was Section 47.

MR. LUIJKEN: Mr. Chair, may I make a remark about this

here? May I make a remark in connection about what was

said just by Marine Harvest. I sent seven years ago a

long e-mail with 20 questions, very technical, about

food, about the fish, about all bad things regarding to

salmon and I never got one answer. That is seven years

ago. That is what I want to say.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you very much. I don't think we

can take details of the calibrated hydrodynamic model

if that hasn't been circulated.

MS. O'HARA: No, it hasn't been circulated.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Can I ask you to proceed without talking

about that.

DR. BASS: Before I do proceed, Mr. Chairman, I do want

to make it clear that was submitted in good faith to

the Aquaculture and Foreshore Management Division and

if that wasn't circulated by them, there is no reason

why we should have known whether or not it was

circulated by them. But I think if it was not

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circulated by them that at this stage severely

disadvantages Marine Harvest in respect of this

application. And I would request the chance to make a

small submission on that to the parties gathered here,

for their public interest, to understand what we tried

to execute and what the findings of that were. It

reflects, in particular, on the matter of the dispersal

of discharges from the site and perhaps more than

anything else on sea lice. And without making a

submission about it, in the very local area within

boxes of less than 20 square metres in that area,

without being able to do that, I really can't see how I

can give a constructive view to the people here as to

what we had discovered during that process.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Two things I want to say, can I just

clarify, first of all, you say this was submitted in

good faith. Was it submitted in good faith to the

Department or to ALAB?

DR. BASS: As far as I am aware, Mr. Chairman, it was

submitted in good faith to AFMD, to the Department.

MR. CHAIRMAN: As part of the original application?

MS. MCMANUS: No subsequent.

DR. BASS: Can I ask my client to clarify this, please,

Mr. Chairman. Because if I can't talk about it, Mr.

Chairman, Mr. Saunders can't talk about it either.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes, we are going to adjourn for ten or

fifteen minutes.

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MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay, can I ask people to reconvene,

please.

Okay, apologies for the confusion, we have finally

tracked down the document in question, the calibrated

hydrodynamic model document, the title I put on it for

now. There was some confusion in that. An earlier

version of this document was - which didn't contain the

dispersal ,the sea lice dispersal data, had formed part

of the mid-application release of information during

the original licence application. And that was made

available on Marine Harvest web-site.

The updated version which does contain the data from

the studies on sea lice dispersal was submitted to ALAB

under Section 46 of the '97 act under which the power -

the Board has the power to request submissions or

observations. And it did so from Marine Harvest and it

received - in further information it also received a

copy of this report. And this report is - was

available at ALAB offices and available for inspection.

So, on that basis, I am going to allow that data to be

presented.

MR. SWEETMAN: Sorry, Sir, I am very sorry --

MR. CHAIRMAN: It was also referred to in numerous

documents including the technical advisors report.

MR. SWEETMAN: Sorry, sorry, can I have a mic, please.

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The fact it was in the ALAB offices, completely and

utterly irrelevant because we requested all the

documents to be sent on to, my client's requested them

and I think Tony Lowes did as well and it wasn't sent

on. We were led to the opinion that, by ALAB, that we

had all the documents. We did not have all the

documents. I didn't - I read through the stuff and I

thought I had all the documents, I hadn't all the

documents. So, it wasn't circulated when you request,

firstly on a separate point, firstly, the fact that we

had to request the documents for the Appellants was

pretty disturbing. And that becomes - public

consultation is very poor and when we requested these

documents we did not get this one. We have been denied

- the public have been denied the right to proper -

this is something I don't know anything about. I would

have to ask somebody else. I haven't got somebody else

here. In fact I don't even know at this stage who I

would ask. But certainly I am not going - I can't

believe something that is put in like this and such

like and as to this developer, I don't believe anything

they say because the record shows that they are not

proper, fit and proper person basically. So there are

into too many unauthorised developments around the

place already, between them Brendan - what thye call

themselves, but there has been too much of that. I

believe nothing from them and I will have to get

professional advice on this document which was not

circulated to us when we requested all the documents.

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That is the point, we requested all documents, we did

not get this one. Mr. Doyle wants to back me up.

MR. DOYLE: Mr. Chairman, I formally object to the

admission of this document. Where additional

information is received, I say there was a legal

obligation on ALAB to circulate it to all the parties.

And if it does not do so and if the document contains

relevant information, then it is denying the Appellants

their rights of natural justice. And it cannot - the

Board cannot take a valid determination without

circulating the material.

It is also a breach of the public participation

requirements of the EIA directive and a breach of my

right to be consulted and to make submissions in

relation to the document. I would very much like to see

this document. I would like time to assess it to

consider it whether it actually deals with the

cumulative affects point I made and to make a

submission to the Board in that respect. That is my

submission.


MR. QUINLAN: Chairman, Chairman?

MR. CHAIRMAN: Please.

MR. QUINLAN: Thank you, Chairman, I appreciate the

clarification. Sorry about that, I appreciate the

clarification which you gave but for the avoidance of

all doubt, Dr. Bass has placed on the record that the

document that he was alluding to appears to have been

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submitted to the Aquaculture and Foreshore Management

Division of the Department. I think from our checking

here we have confirmed, in so far as we could check it,

that is not the case. It may well have been submitted

to ALAB. The document, an earlier version, as you

correctly state, was released to the public as part of

the release of information and therefore is in the

public domain. But the specific document that I

understand he is alluding to --

MR. SWEETMAN: Turn your phones off.

MR. QUINLAN: They are off, I apologise, was not

submitted to the Department. It appears to have been

submitted to ALAB and also postdates the Minister's

decision, in itself could not have form part of the

Minister's consideration. I would grateful if the

record would reflect that, thank you.

DR. BASS: Through the Chair, Mr. Chairman, my

apologies that is, in fact, correct. The final

document was not submitted to the Department because

the process by that stage was an Appeal, it was

submitted, I believe under Section 47 to ALAB.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Section 46?

DR. BASS: Sorry Section 46.

MR. SWEETMAN: And not put on your web-site which

purported to carry all the documents.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am afraid I am going to have to rule

that we will hear this testimony because otherwise our

own advisor's report has been based on this, has taken

account of this. It is a very important document, I

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want to hear about it and it was made available. We

have complied with the or the 1997 act.

MR. SWEETMAN: Sorry, Mr. Inspector, that is the

problem, that is the huge problem of this Inquiry. It

complied with 1997, I am more interested in complying

with the current European legislation, right. And this

complied, it doesn't comply with the current European

legislation. That is my point on which I was going to

walk out, I reluctantly stayed here. It doesn't

comply, it complies with the '97, the '97 legislation

has been amended twice. There is a section comes into

them and the 2011 act also would come into place on

implementing our house. This is a fundamental human

right under our house for us to be consulted properly.

Can I have a copy, before he presents the document, can

I have a copy of it, please?

MR. CHAIRMAN: I don't have a copy of it.

MR. SWEETMAN: As there are no copies available, we

can't possibly discuss it

MS. O'HARA: No, I can e-mail a copy.

MR. SWEETMAN: How many pages is it?

DR. BASS: 110, I think.

MR. SWEETMAN: I read very slowly, I will come back

next week.

DR. BASS: It's got lots of pictures.

MR. SWEETMAN: I will look at them very thoroughly as

being a trained photographer. I would look at them

very thoroughly, I would question a lot of them. The

legislation does not permit this sort of thing to

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happen. The Department has even admitted and we are

talking here, we are going to talk about the '97

legislation which I reluctantly agreed to. The '97

regulations is an Appeal. This document was

subsequently presented, right. I am appealing without

- with reservations, without looking at my rights but I

am appealing at this moment the decision of the

Department. The Department decision has been proven

once again to be fundamentally flawed because they had

to produce this document. The Department's decision

relevant to appropriate assessment is fundamentally

flawed. So basically there is no way permission can be

granted for this under the '97 regulation where you are

considering it to be an Appeal. If we had gone and

adapted the law to suit the modern developments and

that ALAB was looking at this de novo, yes, the

developer could have come in, made his submission in

the normal sense and things went from there. But, no,

the Agenda was set under the '97 legislation. We are

appealing the decision of the Minister. The decision

of the Minister is fundamentally flawed now on two

counts.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you, that is duly noted. Now, I

move over to - to Mr. Bass.

DR. BASS: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

MR. SWEETMAN: Sorry the document can even be e-mailed

to us. We can't - you can't take a 107 page document

and suddenly produced on evidence where you said

nothing was written, are you going to read all 107

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pages into the record and project the pictures? We

have to get one way or the other.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Under the procedures set down in the 1997

act this was submitted to ALAB and it was available for

inspection.

MR. SWEETMAN: You see, that is not good enough. Sorry

that is the problem with that --

MR. CHAIRMAN: I understand that is your position.

MR. SWEETMAN: No, no, that is the position. The point

is - the point is we asked for all the documentation,

we were sent documentation. We shouldn't have had to

ask for it in the first place. We got it at very short

notice. We shouldn't have had to ask for it, we did

ask for it and this was excluded. Now, before this

document can be put into under the fundamental rules of

EIA we have a right to be informed. I can't - he is

going to talk about - he is going to talk I presume

about 107 page document, he is not going to read it all

into the record, I have no and I am totally unable to

question him on it because I don't know whether he is

misquoting it, selectively quoting it or being

downright disingenuous on it, right. I have a right to

have that document in front of me when he is quoting

from it.

APPELLANTS: Fair, fair. (APPLAUSE)

MR. O'DONOVAN: I requested from - from ALAB a copy of

all documentation. I explained that Portlaois was a

long ways up the country and an awful lot of

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photocopy it or get records of it in some other

fashion. I politely requested under the EU directive

that all the information and correspondence available

to ALAB would be made available to me and my members.

I got a letter saying that everything relevant to this

inquiry would be sent on. Now it appears that

everything relevant to this inquiry has not been sent

on. So I object in the strongest possible manner in

proceeding with something which we did not receive.

MR. SWEETMAN: Actually, sorry, Mr. Inspector, I forgot

to add that to it. We documentation was requested

under 2003/35 access to information on the environment

legislation and they requested the full - the full

documentation. The full documentation was not made

available. So ALAB is distinctly at fault because they

didn't refuse it, they made no mention of it, right.

If we go back to the use of a judgement in Belgium and

the European Court that is an offence.


MR. DOYLE: Sorry, Mr. Chairman. In light of the fact

that people have requested all of the documents, have

been told that they received all of the documents and

in light of my own position where An Taisce became

aware of this Appeal on the 23rd of January and has

been struggling to obtain and go through all of the

documents since then, it is my position that this oral

hearing cannot - cannot give a fair hearing to the

Appellants if - if the developer is allowed to open

these documents at this stage. And in those

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circumstances I would apply to you to adjourn the oral

hearing. And I say that if you do not do so, that this

hearing will not comply with requirements of natural

justice. It will not be fair. It does not give the

parties an adequate opportunity to be heard. I also say

it doesn't comply with the requirement of effective

participation under Article 5 of the EIA directive.

And that is the basis of my application now to adjourn

the proceedings, to give us the opportunity to consider

this document.

MR. SWEETMAN: I support that.

MR. CHAIRMAN: What I will suggest we adjourn till

after lunch and let we consult my Board colleagues and

we will make a decision at 2 o'clock, okay.

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MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay, I had an opportunity to consult

with the chairman of the Board. And in light of the

fact that a number of seminally important documents

have not been made available to everyone, not alone the

data from the category of hydrodynamic model but what

we propose to do is to adjourn for a period of between

four and five weeks, I can't give you a definite date,

we will have to check the availability of a venue,

availability of our technical consultants, etcetera.

So, a date, we will notify everyone of a date in four

to five weeks, we will make a decision on the venue, on

the duration, whether one or two days.

MR. SWEETMAN: I think allow two, allow two, always

finish early.

MR. CHAIRMAN: We will make, we are making available

right away but certainly by the very beginning of next

week all documents received by the Board under Section

46 and Section 47, all additional information will be

made available on the web.

So, if anybody has any submission to make about the

adjournment and about when we reconvene now would be

the time?

MR. DOYLE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wonder in light

of the adjournment will the Board give public notice of

the - that the oral hearing is taking place and invite

public comment in relation to it? I was approached by

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one individual this morning who informed me that he had

just found out about the oral hearing and that he would

have wished to make a submission had he known about it.

And in the context, in the light of my earlier

submissions, I wonder will the Board give public notice

of the resumption of the oral hearing and accept public

submissions from interested members of the public at

that stage?

MR. CHAIRMAN: A decision will be made on that, check

the act, check our obligations and we make a decision

on that.

MR. DOYLE: Thank you.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Peadar?

MR. O'MAOLAIN: Thank you. Just in relation to the

resumed hearing, when it commences or recommences

following the adjournment and in light of the

significant new volume of material that will be

available, I would ask that the Appellants be afforded

the opportunity to include a written addendum to their

Appeals, in view of the fact that this new evidence is

now to be made available. And I think that could

expedite and net down the positions of the - it could

net down the positions of the Appellants significantly

and ultimately save time if they were permitted to do

so. And it may involve their experts in respect of

doing that, that is the first point.

The second point I would make is just that, I would

commend to the Board that the adjournment should take

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us beyond the date of the judgement which is to be

delivered by Judge Baker. And thereby there could no

longer be any ground for the report which is being

treated as being sub judicis, whether it is or not, in

any event following that judgement I ask that that

report be provided to ALAB and that it be made

available to the parties. So that that can also be

dealt with.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Yes.

MR. O'MAOLAIN: I think that does two aspects could be

partially cured at any rate by that. And it will

provide for access to information proper participation

and it will validate to some extent, to a greater

extent, the proceedings and the ultimate determination.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman

MR. CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Certainly take account for

that certainly.

MR. O'KEEFFE: Yes. Will we be allowed present new

information at the retrial or rehearing? Will we be

allowed present new material?

MR. CHAIRMAN: I am going to suggest that to the extent

that it is related to the new information, yes

MR. O'KEEFFE: Just related to new information. It has

become painfully obvious to me that Marine Harvest

don't mind, no skin off their nose if they go down and

can't build another salmon farm at Shot Head because of

the pearl mussel or the Dromagowlane River and the

otter. But under no circumstances can they lose

because of a defective product called farm salmon. And

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that is what is in the interest and the well-being of

the public.

MR. O'DOHERTY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is

Donal O'Doherty and I am speaking on behalf of the

Federation of Irish Salmon and Sea Trout Anglers. I

would like to state that in our view the postponement

of this hearing is not feasible because of the fact

that due to the fact the information provided to the

technical expert here, Mr. Saunders, he has already had

view of the technical information that Marine Harvest

gave. Therefore, the Appellants of which we are one

are at a profound disadvantage. The new hearing would

have a different agenda altogether. We cannot postpone

or defer this hearing here because we need a new agenda

totally. Therefore you can't postpone this hearing

here because this hearing has been found to be totally

unfair to the Appellants and faithfully flawed in the

way it has been managed. And most of the people here

that gave evidence at this hearing did so under

protest.

So, therefore, I call on you not to defer this hearing

or reconstitute this hearing, we need a totally new

hearing. Because we are taking a totally new agenda,

with new information, has to be new submissions made

from everybody here that is interested in making

submissions. It has to go to public consultation

again. It has to be advertised properly and everybody

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that information has to be available to each and ever

person that has an interest in this Shot Head farm

application. So, I am calling for this hearing to be

adjourned. A new hearing to take place which is

totally - has to happen now because this hearing has

been found to be unfair and fatally flawed, thank you.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Okay, if there are no more comments we

will adjourn. Thank you very much.

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active [1] - 20:27

activities [4] -

11:7, 11:9, 12:1,

44:9

activity [1] -

29:5

adapted [1] -

62:15

add [3] - 11:10,

29:1, 64:11

addendum [1] -

67:19

addition [1] -

41:21

additional [3] -

9:8, 59:4, 66:20

address [5] -

39:27, 41:27,

49:14, 51:7, 52:7

addressed [6] -

46:14, 49:13,

52:6, 52:10,

53:12, 53:17

addresses [2] -

7:3, 13:28

addressing [3] -

48:18, 49:12,

52:29

adequate [1] -

65:5

adjourn [6] -

56:26, 65:1, 65:8,

65:12, 66:8, 70:8

adjourned [1] -

70:4

ADJOURNED

[3] - 56:29, 65:16,

70:10

adjournment [4]

- 66:24, 66:27,

67:16, 67:29

adjunct [1] -

27:21

admission [1] -

59:4

admitted [1] -

62:1

adopt [2] - 8:8,

15:4

advance [1] -

13:18

advertised [3] -

41:19, 41:20,

69:28

advice [1] -

58:28

ADVISOR [1] -

3:4

advisor's [2] -

33:17, 60:28

advisors [1] -

57:28

affect [3] - 8:1,

8:3, 12:6

affects [37] -

7:10, 7:21, 8:10,

8:13, 8:16, 10:4,

10:8, 11:5, 11:8,

11:12, 11:16,

12:1, 12:8, 12:10,

37:28, 48:29,

49:1, 49:4, 49:5,

49:10, 49:12,

49:15, 49:17,

49:22, 49:24,

50:26, 51:2, 51:3,

51:7, 51:18,

51:21, 51:23,

52:7, 52:29,

53:11, 59:19

afforded [2] -

15:12, 67:18

afield [1] - 54:29

AFMD [1] -

56:20

afraid [2] - 33:2,

60:26

afterwards [1] -

48:12

AGAINST [1] -

3:12

age [2] - 20:16,

20:20

Agenda [6] -

48:14, 50:8,

50:14, 50:15,

50:21, 62:19

agenda [9] - 5:6,

36:22, 36:26,

48:15, 48:19,

50:2, 69:13,

69:14, 69:24

agglomeration

[1] - 26:23

ago [10] - 19:24,

26:13, 34:10,

43:4, 50:3, 52:23,

55:13, 55:17

agree [3] -

20:19, 49:19

agreed [1] - 62:3

Agriculture [1] -

41:23

agriculture [2] -

12:5, 46:6

ahead [2] - 16:6,

23:17

Aherbeg [1] -

45:1

AINE [1] - 3:14

ALAB [16] -

39:12, 56:18,

57:17, 57:23,

58:1, 58:5, 59:6,

60:5, 60:13,

60:21, 62:16,

63:4, 63:26, 64:4,

64:15, 68:6

Alan [2] - 5:9,

35:1

alexander [1] -

35:7

allow [8] - 7:1,

37:26, 47:3, 49:7,

53:9, 57:24,

66:15

allowed [8] -

18:21, 21:20,

23:13, 35:17,

47:25, 64:28,


1

68:18, 68:20

allowing [2] -

46:20, 49:14

allude [1] -

45:19

alluding [2] -

59:29, 60:9

alluminum [1] -

27:19

alone [2] -

45:28, 66:6

altered [2] -

16:16

altogether [1] -

69:13

Alzheimer's [1] -

29:13

Alzhimer's [2] -

30:25, 31:8

AMD [1] - 41:22

amended [3] -

42:13, 42:14,

61:11

Amendment [1]

- 50:14

amendment [1] -

50:20

amendments [1]

- 47:10

amount [3] -

18:20, 27:24,

29:13

amounts [1] -

38:5

analysed [1] -

6:18

analysis [2] -

42:27, 46:2

AND [1] - 3:31

ANGLERS [3] -

3:1, 3:9, 3:28

Anglers [3] -

45:11, 45:15,

69:5

animals [1] -

34:25

annulled [1] -

37:16

annum [3] -

45:21, 45:22,

45:23

answer [2] -

24:20, 55:16

answered [1] -

24:29

anyway [3] -

40:11, 41:2, 47:8

apologies [2] -

57:6, 60:18

apologise [2] -

52:24, 60:11

appauling [1] -

33:22

Appeal [17] -

9:10, 10:18, 15:9,

15:25, 17:2,

17:10, 17:25,

18:4, 18:5, 22:2,

31:21, 32:25,

37:7, 60:20, 62:4,

62:14, 64:24

Appealing [1] -

17:15

appealing [4] -

18:2, 62:5, 62:7,

62:20

Appeals [4] -

8:9, 15:17, 18:23,

67:20

appear [2] - 6:5,

16:7

Appellant [2] -

37:18, 39:2

Appellants [22] -

15:8, 15:9, 15:14,

16:24, 16:26,

17:19, 39:6,

43:18, 43:21,

43:23, 46:28,

49:25, 50:6,

54:29, 55:7,

58:11, 59:8,

64:28, 67:18,

67:23, 69:11,

69:17

APPELLANTS

[1] - 63:25

APPLAUSE [3] -

16:22, 38:29,

63:25

Applicant [2] -

47:12, 51:25

applicant's [1] -

36:23

application [17]

- 7:1, 7:3, 8:28,

8:29, 38:25,

41:18, 41:24,

46:9, 52:17,

53:19, 55:5, 56:3,

56:21, 57:12,

57:13, 65:8, 70:3

applies [2] -

10:1, 52:9

apply [1] - 65:1

appreciate [2] -

59:25, 59:26

approached [1]

- 66:29

appropriate [4] -

6:23, 15:24, 16:2,

62:11

aquaculture [3]

- 42:16, 42:21,

54:26

Aquaculture [5]

- 40:10, 41:1,

54:16, 55:26,

60:1

AQUACULTUR

E [1] - 3:31

area [21] - 7:11,

7:25, 7:27, 8:13,

12:28, 21:6,

21:18, 22:1,

25:10, 26:13,

28:6, 41:11,

42:23, 42:29,

44:12, 44:13,

44:14, 52:9,

56:10, 56:11

areas [2] -

22:20, 44:16

argument [3] -

9:18, 9:29, 16:1

arguments [2] -

39:7, 50:6

arise [2] - 15:19,

43:26

arises [1] - 8:1

arising [1] -

43:14

arrangements

[1] - 38:27

arrive [1] - 13:5

arrogance [1] -

33:24

Article [4] - 5:22,

5:23, 7:16, 65:7

article [1] - 14:7

AS [3] - 5:2,

57:1, 66:1

asbestos [1] -

29:21

asbestosis [1] -

29:21

ascertain [1] -

51:15

aspects [1] -

68:10

assess [7] -

7:10, 7:21, 14:26,

24:14, 24:16,

25:3, 59:17

assessed [3] -

8:12, 12:18,

13:23

assessment [8]

- 5:12, 6:18, 12:8,

12:10, 13:22,

47:29, 48:3,

62:11

Assessment [4]

- 7:14, 10:2,

11:12, 14:25

associated [1] -

36:14

Association [2]

- 45:11, 45:15

ASSOCIATION

[2] - 3:1, 3:9

associations [1]

- 41:9

assumption [1] -

46:22

assure [1] -

44:26

astronomical [1]

- 27:1

AT [2] - 57:1,

66:1

Atlantic [3] -

12:16, 29:29,

30:29

attainment [2] -

14:12, 14:21

attempt [2] -

33:10, 33:24

attend [1] - 16:7

attention [2] -

10:13, 54:21

attitude [2] -

37:20, 39:20

audience [2] -

19:19, 50:27

author [1] -

39:13

authorisation

[2] - 14:10, 14:17

authorities [1] -

26:2

Authority [1] -

20:18

autism [2] -

29:13, 29:15

availability [2] -

66:10, 66:11

available [22] -

9:22, 37:18,

41:25, 44:11,

53:2, 54:28,

57:14, 57:23,

61:1, 61:18, 63:4,

64:3, 64:4, 64:15,

66:6, 66:17,

66:21, 67:18,

67:21, 68:7, 70:1

avoidance [1] -

59:27

aware [6] - 48:7,

52:25, 53:22,

54:19, 56:19,

64:24

awful [1] - 63:28

awhile [1] -

34:24

B

bad [1] - 55:15

Baker [1] - 68:2

balance [4] -

15:26, 15:29,

16:1, 16:15

banks [1] -

25:21

Bantry [30] -

12:4, 13:4, 13:20,

14:20, 16:26,

16:28, 26:5, 26:7,

26:27, 28:1, 28:6,

34:1, 34:22,

36:28, 36:29,

37:3, 39:2, 42:27,

43:27, 44:19,

45:25, 46:7, 48:1,

48:5, 48:21, 49:5,

49:11, 52:7

barrier [1] -

29:10

Barrow [1] - 6:2

based [1] -

60:28

basic [1] - 34:20

basis [7] - 12:7,

21:9, 23:6, 41:14,

43:12, 57:24,

65:8

Bass [5] - 24:4,

40:2, 42:2, 42:20,

62:24

bass [4] - 45:14,

46:18, 51:6,

59:28

BASS [32] - 3:3,

24:5, 24:7, 24:10,

24:14, 25:5,

42:20, 45:16,

46:27, 47:11,

47:16, 47:27,

48:3, 48:10, 50:1,

52:2, 52:4, 53:13,

53:16, 53:21,

53:28, 54:2,

54:23, 55:10,

55:24, 56:19,

56:23, 60:17,

60:23, 61:22,

61:25, 62:25

bathing [2] -

23:3, 23:4

bathroom [1] -

22:18

Bay [33] - 13:4,

13:20, 14:20,

16:26, 16:27,

16:28, 26:5, 26:7,

26:27, 28:1, 28:6,

33:8, 34:1, 34:22,

36:28, 37:1, 37:3,

37:7, 37:9, 39:2,

42:27, 43:27,

44:19, 45:25,

46:7, 48:1, 48:6,

48:21, 49:5,

49:11, 52:7

bay [20] - 9:13,

9:15, 9:16, 9:26,

10:9, 11:7, 12:23,

23:10, 26:6,

34:24, 34:26,

36:24, 36:28,

37:2, 37:22,

37:27, 38:18,

44:24, 46:5

BAY [2] - 3:12,

3:13

bay" [1] - 22:29

BE [1] - 70:10

bearing [2] -

20:16, 20:20

became [1] -

64:23

become [2] -

20:22, 68:24

becomes [1] -

58:12

becoming [1] -

30:16

begin [1] - 40:3

beginning [3] -

40:7, 41:7, 66:18

behalf [2] -

16:21, 69:4

behaviour [1] -

28:23

beings [3] -

11:28, 29:9,

45:29

Belgium [1] -

64:17

below [1] -

21:28

best [5] - 13:21,

41:6, 42:22,

43:11, 44:11

better [4] - 6:29,

30:1, 40:16,

40:23

between [12] -


2

11:20, 11:25,

31:8, 36:10,

37:12, 40:1,

44:28, 45:28,

54:8, 58:25, 66:8

beyond [5] -

38:13, 49:8,

49:11, 51:1, 68:1

bias [1] - 16:2

Billy [1] - 37:7

BIM [1] - 38:24

biology [1] -

17:26

birds [1] - 38:2

bit [2] - 5:6,

28:17

blood [1] - 29:10

blown [2] - 13:4,

13:20

Board [28] -

8:20, 9:2, 10:11,

10:16, 10:23,

13:27, 14:28,

15:24, 15:27,

15:29, 16:4, 16:5,

16:10, 16:15,

18:6, 18:8, 18:26,

50:13, 54:16,

57:19, 59:10,

59:20, 65:13,

66:4, 66:19,

66:27, 67:5,

67:29

Board's [2] -

14:17, 15:7

boat [4] - 21:8,

21:10, 22:11,

22:20

boats [2] -

32:11, 34:21

bodies [1] - 41:8

body [3] - 14:11,

14:19, 43:13

book [3] - 17:25,

17:27

booked [1] -

37:28

books [6] -

18:12, 19:15,

26:2, 26:4, 27:27,

32:28

Bord [1] - 24:4

bore [1] - 27:2

born [1] - 25:20

bottom [1] -

26:19

box [2] - 52:8,

53:14

boxed [1] -

52:13

boxes [1] -

56:11

BOYDEN [8] -

3:10, 3:11, 40:12,

45:8, 45:10,

45:13, 46:16,

46:18

boyden [3] -

45:16, 45:17,

45:20

Boyden [1] -

46:15

boyden's [1] -

45:6

brain [2] - 29:10,

29:12

breach [3] -

46:12, 59:13,

59:14

Bredesen [1] -

30:26

Brendan [3] -

16:27, 17:20,

58:25

BRIAN [1] - 3:13

bridge [3] -

25:23, 25:24,

26:21

brief [2] - 33:11,

44:2

briefly [1] - 37:9

bringing [1] -

54:21

British [1] - 35:8

brought [1] -

37:7

build [1] - 68:26

Bund [1] - 14:4

business [1] -

41:9

buzzing [2] -

40:21, 40:22

C

CAGES [1] -

3:13

cages [8] - 35:2,

35:3, 35:4, 35:6,

35:10, 35:11,

35:24, 38:2

Cages [4] -

16:28, 33:9, 37:8,

37:10

calculated [1] -

21:12

calibrated [3] -

52:14, 55:19,

57:7

calobrated [1] -

53:15

Canada [1] -

35:8

Canadian [1] -

35:9

cancer [2] -

29:13, 29:20

candidates [1] -

16:12

cannot [10] -

6:13, 9:16, 10:25,

14:29, 51:15,

59:9, 59:10,

64:27, 69:13

carbohydrates

[1] - 31:4

careful [1] -

37:12

CAROLINE [1] -

3:24

CARR [1] -

33:10

carried [3] - 7:9,

9:21, 23:19

carries [2] -

9:14, 21:10

Carrig [1] - 45:1

carry [3] - 13:26,

17:3, 60:25

carrying [1] -

12:7

case [7] - 14:3,

15:14, 16:7,

16:14, 42:25,

46:7, 60:4

cases [1] - 14:4

Castletown [1] -

26:6

Castletownber

e [1] - 23:11

catastrophe [1]

- 13:11

category [1] -

66:7

Catherine [2] -

43:2, 44:5

CATHERINE [1]

- 3:2

caught [2] -

31:23, 38:26

caused [2] -

15:9, 25:16

causes [1] -

29:24

cautious [1] -

20:27

centres [1] -

30:24

certain [4] -

18:20, 27:8, 31:8,

50:21

certainly [6] -

24:10, 52:27,

58:19, 66:18,

68:16, 68:17

chain [3] - 8:2,

8:3, 8:16

chair [3] - 40:12,

45:13, 55:11

Chair [4] - 16:20,

39:11, 46:27,

60:17

CHAIRMAN [89]

- 5:4, 16:23, 17:6,

17:11, 17:14,

17:19, 17:29,

18:3, 18:8, 18:11,

19:6, 19:8, 19:10,

19:17, 19:22,

23:24, 23:26,

24:18, 24:21,

24:27, 25:2,

25:12, 30:3, 30:6,

30:11, 30:15,

30:20, 31:5,

31:20, 32:18,

32:21, 32:27,

32:29, 33:2, 33:5,

39:1, 39:18,

39:23, 40:16,

40:20, 40:22,

42:8, 42:19, 45:9,

46:17, 47:2,

47:12, 47:17,

47:26, 48:11,

48:17, 49:7,

49:19, 49:24,

49:28, 50:18,

51:18, 51:21,

51:25, 51:29,

52:3, 53:9, 53:14,

55:4, 55:18,

55:22, 56:15,

56:21, 56:26,

57:3, 57:27,

59:22, 59:24,

60:22, 60:26,

61:17, 62:23,

63:3, 63:8, 64:19,

65:12, 66:3,

66:17, 67:9,

67:13, 68:9,

68:16, 68:21,

70:7

Chairman [5] -

48:10, 56:19,

56:25, 59:23,

59:25

chairman [28] -

5:11, 8:24, 11:4,

11:17, 15:13,

15:23, 17:21,

23:22, 32:27,

33:10, 45:8,

46:18, 47:27,

48:8, 50:1, 52:2,

54:23, 55:24,

56:24, 59:3,

59:23, 60:17,

62:25, 64:20,

66:4, 66:26,

68:15, 69:3

challenge [2] -

39:6, 50:6

chambers [1] -

16:4

chance [2] -

33:7, 56:3

change [3] -

34:12, 40:14,

42:5

changes [1] -

22:5

charities [1] -

41:9

chart [1] - 28:19

CHEANNABHA

IN [1] - 3:14

check [5] - 22:8,

60:3, 66:10, 67:9,

67:10

checking [1] -

60:2

chemical [1] -

14:14

chemicals [12] -

8:3, 8:10, 8:14,

22:16, 22:19,

22:21, 22:22,

27:24, 29:8,

31:28, 37:28

cherry [1] -

28:27

child [2] - 20:15,

20:20

children [1] -

29:22

chosen [1] -

51:16

circulate [1] -

59:6

circulated [9] -

49:18, 53:18,

55:20, 55:21,

55:27, 55:29,

56:1, 58:9, 58:29

circulating [2] -

49:20, 59:11

circulation [1] -

43:27

circumstances

[5] - 6:9, 9:7,

15:25, 65:1,

68:28

citations [1] -

8:24

claim [1] - 31:17

CLAMS [1] -

36:26

clarification [2] -

59:26, 59:27

clarify [5] - 17:1,

17:2, 17:7, 56:16,

56:23

clarifying [1] -

19:22

class [1] - 23:11

classifications

[1] - 28:5

cleanest [1] -

26:26

clear [3] - 40:17,

45:13, 55:25

clearly [2] -

35:8, 42:17

client [2] -

42:26, 56:23

client's [2] -

54:17, 58:3

climate [1] -

34:11

Clinton [1] -

17:26

clockwise [1] -

9:14

close [2] - 15:2,

35:1

closed [1] - 54:8

coast [1] - 13:2

coli [1] - 28:9

coliforms [3] -

26:10, 27:4,

27:29

colleagues [2] -

18:11, 65:13

collected [1] -

6:17

collided [1] -

12:24

colliding [1] -

13:13

colour [2] -

31:24, 52:12

Columbia [1] -

35:8

coming [3] -

21:28, 21:29,

53:8

commences [1]


3

- 67:15

commend [1] -

67:29

comment [5] -

31:12, 42:4, 42:5,

46:15, 66:29

commented [2] -

44:5, 44:10

comments [4] -

15:2, 43:20, 45:6,

70:7

commercial [2] -

37:14, 41:10

commission [1]

- 42:26

Commissioner

[3] - 37:6, 37:15,

37:16

commitment [1]

- 26:3

common [3] -

8:17, 35:14,

43:23

communicatio

n [1] - 43:14

community [2] -

5:28, 5:29

company [1] -

40:8

compared [1] -

28:19

compilation [2]

- 40:8, 40:28

compiled [2] -

34:8, 34:13

completely [4] -

42:10, 50:28,

52:10, 58:1

complied [3] -

61:2, 61:5, 61:7

complies [1] -

61:10

comply [5] -

50:21, 61:7,

61:10, 65:3, 65:6

complying [2] -

50:15, 61:5

component [1] -

32:10

composition [1]

- 46:4

CON [1] - 3:1

concern [1] -

28:7

concerned [3] -

30:16, 43:21,

52:28

concerns [11] -

11:4, 12:29, 30:7,

39:27, 40:4,

40:25, 41:12,

41:27, 42:3,

43:24, 43:26

conclude [1] -

14:28

conclusion [4] -

5:8, 5:17, 13:23,

14:24

concrete [1] -

32:16

condition [1] -

27:29

conference [1] -

27:20

confirm [1] -

18:17

confirmed [1] -

60:3

CONFIRMED [1]

- 70:10

confusion [2] -

57:6, 57:9

connection [1] -

55:12

CONNEELY [1] -

3:16

CONNELY [1] -

3:15

conscious [1] -

20:11

consequence

[1] - 43:5

consequently

[1] - 52:23

conservation [4]

- 5:16, 5:27, 6:1,

16:17

consider [3] -

53:29, 59:18,

65:9

consideration

[8] - 10:5, 11:5,

12:14, 38:10,

40:26, 54:4,

54:15, 60:15

considerations

[1] - 33:25

considered [5] -

13:9, 18:3, 18:5,

34:4, 35:15

considering [1]

- 62:14

considers [2] -

13:27, 28:7

constitute [1] -

38:20

constituted [1] -

7:2

constructive [1]

- 56:13

consult [2] -

65:13, 66:3

consultants [1] -

66:11

consultation [7]

- 41:29, 42:11,

42:13, 49:18,

54:7, 58:13,

69:27

consultations

[1] - 43:15

consulted [3] -

41:4, 59:15,

61:14

consultees [1] -

41:8

consume [1] -

29:11

consuming [2] -

23:28, 29:16

contact [1] -

38:24

contacted [1] -

22:6

contain [3] -

27:18, 57:10,

57:16

containing [1] -

33:20

contains [1] -

59:7

contaminants

[1] - 28:18

contention [1] -

35:2

contest [1] -

51:26

context [1] -

67:4

CONTINUED [3]

- 5:1, 57:1, 66:1

continuing [1] -

5:11

contradiction

[1] - 49:9

contributes [1] -

9:16

controls [1] -

35:4

conversion [2] -

46:3, 46:21

cook [1] - 26:2

cooked [1] -

26:4

cooking [2] -

27:27, 28:17

Coomhola [4] -

8:8, 10:3, 45:10,

45:14

COOMHOLA [1]

- 3:8

cooperation [2]

- 44:27, 45:2

copied [1] - 55:7

copies [1] -

61:18

copy [8] - 18:25,

55:6, 57:22,

61:15, 61:16,

61:17, 61:20,

63:26

Cork [2] - 21:24,

28:2

corner [2] -

23:15, 26:21

correct [8] -

16:27, 46:21,

47:3, 53:11,

53:13, 53:27,

53:28, 60:18

corrected [1] -

46:19

correctly [1] -

60:6

correspondenc

e [1] - 64:3

Council [3] -

22:6, 26:16, 28:2

count [2] - 22:4,

25:23

counter [1] -

9:14

counting [1] -

25:23

country [1] -

63:28

counts [1] -

62:22

County [3] -

22:6, 26:16, 28:2

couple [3] -

50:3, 50:16,

53:22

course [4] - 5:6,

7:1, 35:29, 36:8

court [1] - 14:3

Court [2] - 14:4,

64:18

covered [2] -

7:28, 7:29

criminality [1] -

29:16

critical [1] -

10:26

criticise [1] -

50:24

criticism [1] -

50:25

CROWLEY [1] -

4:6

crucial [2] -

5:20, 7:9

cubic [3] -

21:10, 21:11,

21:13

cumulation [2] -

11:16, 12:1

cumulative [24] -

11:5, 11:8, 11:12,

11:22, 12:8, 49:5,

49:10, 49:12,

49:15, 49:17,

49:21, 49:24,

50:26, 51:2, 51:3,

51:7, 51:18,

51:21, 51:23,

52:7, 52:29,

53:11, 59:19

cured [1] - 68:11

CURRAN [1] -

3:13

current [3] -

43:26, 61:6, 61:7

D

DAFM [4] - 3:32,

4:1, 4:2, 4:3

daily [1] - 21:9

damaging [1] -

38:2

Danish [1] -

32:13

dark [1] - 51:13

data [9] - 6:17,

6:19, 7:20, 13:26,

13:28, 57:11,

57:16, 57:24,

66:7

date [9] - 8:21,

34:7, 34:9, 34:12,

38:11, 66:9,

66:12, 68:1

DATE [1] - 70:10

days [4] - 31:29,

50:3, 50:16,

66:14

de [1] - 62:16

deal [2] - 43:22,

51:23

dealing [5] -

34:15, 34:17,

49:4, 49:10,

52:13

deals [1] - 59:18

dealt [6] - 42:11,

44:1, 51:28,

51:29, 68:8

deceive [1] -

25:28

December [1] -

36:4

deception [1] -

21:2

decide [2] - 5:7,

6:19

decision [17] -

17:4, 17:9, 17:15,

18:7, 18:9, 37:5,

37:17, 60:14,

62:7, 62:8, 62:10,

62:20, 65:14,

66:13, 67:9,

67:10

decline [2] - 6:2,

12:17

defective [1] -

68:29

defer [2] - 69:14,

69:22

deferred [1] -

16:26

defies [1] -

20:23

definite [1] -

66:9

definitely [1] -

23:1

definition [2] -

25:7

deflect [1] -

33:24

deliberately [1] -

51:13

deliberation [1]

- 15:25

delivered [1] -

68:2

demise [1] -

36:16

demonstrate [1]

- 46:10

denied [2] -

58:14, 58:15

density [1] -

35:24

denying [1] -

59:8

Department [18]

- 9:2, 11:14,

11:26, 17:8,

33:28, 39:3,

41:22, 51:6,

51:13, 54:9,

56:18, 56:20,

60:2, 60:12,

60:19, 62:1, 62:8

Department's

[2] - 11:11, 62:10


4

Departments's

[1] - 11:13

derogation [1] -

14:9

descending [1] -

35:8

describe [2] -

7:10, 14:26

described [1] -

44:8

design [1] -

27:12

designated [1] -

5:21

designates [1] -

26:18

designed [1] -

5:26

detail [1] - 30:22

details [1] -

55:19

deterioration [3]

- 14:11, 14:19,

14:29

determination

[6] - 18:4, 18:5,

18:27, 18:29,

59:10, 68:14

determinative

[1] - 10:18

detriment [1] -

16:16

developed [2] -

43:10, 43:28

developer [10] -

7:2, 7:19, 8:26,

9:3, 9:8, 10:27,

50:23, 58:21,

62:17, 64:28

developer's [2] -

9:18, 12:25

development [8]

- 6:10, 6:12, 11:6,

11:10, 11:17,

13:22, 48:26,

52:14

developments

[2] - 58:24, 62:15

devil [1] - 30:22

diet [1] - 7:27

different [7] -

11:27, 12:1, 16:4,

31:24, 46:20,

48:5, 69:13

differentiate [1]

- 37:12

difficult [2] -

24:14, 37:13

difficulty [3] -

12:22, 13:2, 13:6

direct [1] - 45:27

directive [17] -

5:19, 5:21, 5:23,

5:24, 7:8, 7:15,

7:16, 7:28, 14:1,

14:8, 14:15,

42:14, 50:23,

59:14, 64:2, 65:7

directives [1] -

6:9

directly [1] -

9:21

disadvantage

[1] - 69:12

disadvantages

[1] - 56:2

disagree [2] -

5:17, 48:20

disagrees [1] -

13:27

disaster [1] -

31:14

discharge [2] -

12:3, 12:4

discharges [2] -

44:1, 56:8

discovered [1] -

56:14

discredited [1] -

38:27

discuss [7] -

17:17, 42:3, 48:6,

48:7, 48:22,

48:24, 61:19

discussed [2] -

20:17, 49:24

discussion [3] -

48:14, 49:21,

49:22

disease [4] -

22:12, 22:18,

27:17, 30:25

diseased [1] -

22:17

diseases [2] -

29:26, 37:10

disingenuous

[1] - 63:22

dispersal [4] -

56:7, 57:11,

57:17

dispersion [8] -

23:14, 43:29,

44:2, 52:15,

52:20, 52:26,

53:22

display [1] -

39:20

disposal [1] -

32:17

disqualify [1] -

20:9

disrespect [1] -

20:5

disrespectful [1]

- 39:11

distance [1] -

27:8

distinctly [1] -

64:15

distrust [1] -

20:5

disturbance [1]

- 7:6

disturbing [1] -

58:12

division [1] -

54:26

DIVISION [1] -

3:32

Division [2] -

55:26, 60:2

DIVISON [1] -

4:5

Doctor [1] -

17:21

document [31] -

10:16, 11:13,

30:28, 51:9,

51:10, 51:15,

54:11, 54:18,

54:19, 57:7, 57:8,

57:10, 58:28,

59:4, 59:7, 59:16,

59:17, 59:29,

60:5, 60:8, 60:19,

60:29, 61:15,

62:4, 62:10,

62:26, 62:27,

63:15, 63:18,

63:23, 65:10

documentation

[9] - 18:24, 46:10,

63:10, 63:11,

63:27, 63:29,

64:11, 64:14

documents [18]

- 41:24, 57:28,

58:3, 58:6, 58:7,

58:8, 58:9, 58:11,

58:14, 58:29,

59:1, 60:25,

64:21, 64:22,

64:26, 64:29,

66:5, 66:19

domain [1] -

60:8

Donal [1] - 69:4

DONAL [1] -

3:22

done [4] - 30:2,

52:8, 53:26,

53:27

doubt [3] - 31:9,

38:13, 59:28

down [17] -

14:15, 21:8,

21:19, 21:25,

24:10, 24:12,

26:18, 39:11,

39:19, 41:26,

48:14, 52:5, 57:7,

63:3, 67:22,

67:23, 68:25

downright [1] -

63:22

downwardly [1]

- 46:23

DOYLE [5] -

5:10, 59:3, 64:20,

66:26, 67:12

Doyle [3] -

24:26, 50:27,

59:2

DR [32] - 3:3,

4:8, 4:9, 24:5,

24:7, 25:5, 42:20,

45:16, 46:27,

47:11, 47:16,

47:27, 48:3,

48:10, 50:1, 52:2,

52:4, 53:13,

53:16, 53:21,

53:28, 54:2,

54:23, 55:10,

55:24, 56:19,

56:23, 60:17,

60:23, 61:22,

61:25, 62:25

Dr [10] - 5:14,

33:17, 35:7,

35:22, 40:2, 42:2,

45:14, 46:18,

51:6, 59:28

dragged [1] -

8:29

drastic [1] - 22:5

draw [1] - 10:13

drawn [2] -

23:14, 45:27

drink [2] - 23:3,

23:4

drinkable [1] -

23:5

driven [1] -

12:23

Dromagowlane

[22] - 5:15, 6:6,

6:12, 7:11, 7:24,

8:5, 9:23, 21:6,

23:16, 23:21,

23:23, 24:3,

25:15, 25:22,

25:26, 25:27,

27:11, 33:20,

34:18, 48:23,

68:27

due [1] - 69:8

duly [1] - 62:23

dumped [1] -

23:6

dumping [2] -

22:27, 22:29

duration [1] -

66:14

during [4] -

27:15, 43:11,

56:14, 57:12

DVDs [1] - 18:28

E

E-coli [1] - 28:9

e-mail [2] -

55:14, 61:20

e-mailed [1] -

62:26

earliest [1] -

13:5

early [2] - 41:19,

66:16

eastern [1] -

44:19

eat [6] - 20:12,

20:16, 20:21,

20:25, 20:26,

20:28

eaten [4] - 35:6,

35:10, 38:6, 46:2

eating [1] -

22:22

ecological [2] -

14:13, 14:22

edge [1] - 45:3

Edmond [1] -

19:25

effect [5] - 6:20,

6:24, 11:22,

36:19, 49:13

effective [1] -

65:6

effects [2] -

8:15, 48:26

EI [1] - 39:13

EIA [13] - 6:10,

7:9, 7:15, 7:16,

7:29, 11:13, 13:8,

13:18, 13:19,

13:26, 59:14,

63:16, 65:7

EIS [28] - 6:14,

11:11, 12:7,

27:10, 33:22,

34:5, 34:8, 34:12,

34:27, 40:8,

40:28, 41:15,

43:2, 47:10,

48:25, 48:28,

49:4, 49:16,

49:23, 50:28,

51:3, 51:22, 52:6,

52:8, 52:17,

52:22, 53:12,

53:17

either [8] - 7:29,

11:11, 12:8,

12:23, 27:18,

32:29, 49:10,

56:25

elderly [1] -

20:25

element [1] -

10:26

elements [1] -

11:27

eliminate [1] -

31:3

elite [3] - 19:27,

19:28

elitist [1] - 19:28

elsewhere [1] -

44:18

emphasise [1] -

10:22

empty [1] -

16:13

enable [1] -

14:28

enables [1] -

21:3

enabling [1] -

10:18

end [3] - 6:5,

44:19, 50:14

ENDA [1] - 3:16

endangered [1]

- 29:4

endeavoured [1]

- 41:26

endeavouring

[1] - 16:14

endorsed [1] -

42:10

ENGINEERING

[1] - 4:5

engineers [1] -

32:12

England [1] -

13:3


5

enlargement [1]

- 32:13

ensure [2] -

13:28, 30:17

enter [1] - 12:23

entering [3] -

35:4, 35:5, 38:5

enterprises [1] -

44:28

entities [1] -

28:12

ENVIRONMEN

T [1] - 3:24

environment [7]

- 11:29, 19:5,

19:14, 19:15,

35:28, 39:21,

64:12

environment"

[2] - 7:22, 11:23

environmental

[11] - 11:27,

13:11, 16:11,

16:17, 19:10,

19:17, 24:11,

33:25, 37:18,

39:21, 42:23

Environmental

[9] - 7:13, 10:2,

11:11, 14:25,

19:21, 24:9, 37:6,

40:10, 41:2

ENVIRONMEN

TAL [1] - 3:3

environments

[1] - 21:5

EQS [1] - 46:12

equated [1] -

45:23

equivalence [1]

- 45:27

equivalent [3] -

12:2, 45:24,

46:24

Erriff [2] - 25:21,

36:7

error [1] - 49:3

escape [2] -

12:22, 13:14

escaped [1] -

51:17

escapee [1] -

51:9

escapees [1] -

51:9

escaping [1] -

12:20

especially [1] -

28:7

essence [1] -

9:17

essential [1] -

6:17

established [1] -

34:16

establishing [1]

- 7:25

estimate [1] -

44:21

estuary [2] -

23:16, 23:19

Estuary [1] -

9:23

etcetera [1] -

66:11

EU [2] - 42:13,

64:2

European [6] -

14:3, 14:4, 20:17,

61:6, 61:7, 64:18

evaluate [1] -

6:18

evening [1] -

15:20

event [1] - 68:5

evidence [19] -

6:6, 8:21, 17:12,

17:13, 17:17,

17:18, 18:1, 18:7,

18:9, 38:11,

38:26, 47:10,

47:15, 47:18,

50:24, 62:28,

67:20, 69:19

exactly [1] -

24:15

examine [1] -

36:27

example [3] -

20:15, 51:5,

53:21

excluded [2] -

27:11, 63:14

excuse [3] -

39:10, 39:23,

48:10

execute [1] -

56:6

exemplified [1] -

44:29

exercise [5] -

40:9, 40:28,

41:14, 52:11

existence [1] -

6:14

existing [3] -

36:27, 37:2,

38:18

exit [1] - 38:28

expanding [1] -

48:21

expectancy [1] -

6:4

expected [1] -

54:28

expedite [1] -

67:22

expert [2] -

17:26, 69:9

experts [2] -

28:22, 67:25

explained [1] -

63:27

explanation [1] -

44:2

expressed [1] -

44:27

extending [1] -

50:29

extent [6] -

49:25, 51:25,

51:29, 68:13,

68:14, 68:21

F

facility [1] - 29:9

facing [1] -

13:10

fact [17] - 32:6,

36:26, 45:2,

45:21, 45:27,

51:2, 51:21,

54:11, 58:1,

58:10, 58:18,

60:18, 64:20,

66:5, 67:20, 69:7,

69:8

factoid [2] -

20:6, 20:11

factoids [1] -

27:6

factors [2] -

11:20, 11:26

failed [1] - 54:22

fails [1] - 13:21

Failte [1] - 41:13

fair [8] - 15:3,

47:2, 47:3, 47:4,

63:25, 64:27,

65:4

fairness [5] -

15:6, 24:23,

30:15, 30:16,

30:18

faith [5] - 54:25,

55:25, 56:17,

56:20

faithfully [1] -

69:17

family [2] - 44:8,

44:26

far [8] - 18:1,

40:9, 40:29, 46:4,

48:6, 52:25,

56:19, 60:3

farm [38] - 12:3,

12:12, 12:25,

13:13, 20:12,

20:13, 20:14,

20:16, 20:21,

20:25, 20:26,

20:28, 21:3,

22:12, 23:13,

27:8, 27:24,

27:25, 29:18,

29:24, 29:29,

30:29, 31:23,

31:27, 32:1, 34:1,

35:6, 35:10,

38:20, 42:29,

45:29, 48:4,

68:26, 68:29,

70:2

farmed [2] -

29:29, 30:26

farmers [1] -

35:17

farming [6] -

35:27, 36:29,

42:23, 44:28,

46:12, 54:10

farms [3] - 11:6,

36:11, 38:13

fashion [1] -

64:2

fast [1] - 34:10

fatally [1] - 70:6

fatter [1] - 31:24

fault [2] - 54:24,

64:15

fauna [4] - 5:28,

8:15, 8:16, 11:28

favourable [2] -

5:26, 6:1

feasible [1] -

69:7

FEBRUARY [1] -

5:1

Federation [1] -

69:5

FEDERATION

[1] - 3:28

feed [8] - 7:26,

12:13, 32:1, 46:2,

46:3, 46:20

feedback [1] -

40:13

feeding [1] -

35:18

FEENSTRA [4] -

3:5, 39:10, 39:14,

39:17

feet [2] - 21:19,

21:25

few [1] - 17:22

field [1] - 41:7

fifteen [1] -

56:27

figure [5] -

45:20, 45:23,

46:24, 46:25

figures [1] -

46:19

fill [1] - 22:11

filter [1] - 29:7

final [1] - 60:18

finally [4] -

15:23, 16:9, 38:9,

57:6

findings [1] -

56:6

fine [2] - 5:10

Finfish [2] - 38:1

finish [2] - 23:3,

66:16

finished [3] -

5:11, 21:18,

24:11

Finstad [1] -

35:23

first [11] - 20:11,

26:3, 31:3, 32:16,

33:17, 40:4,

43:23, 44:5,

56:16, 63:12,

67:26

firstly [6] - 9:21,

33:11, 34:17,

50:19, 58:10

fish [28] - 11:6,

12:3, 12:12,

12:14, 12:15,

12:25, 13:13,

13:14, 22:13,

22:14, 22:15,

22:17, 22:22,

23:4, 30:26,

31:23, 31:24,

31:29, 32:1, 32:6,

35:5, 35:15,

35:17, 36:29,

38:5, 55:15

FISHER [1] - 4:9

FISHERIES [2] -

3:26, 3:30

Fisheries [1] -

50:13

fisherman [1] -

31:22

fishermen [2] -

35:19, 44:29

fishery [2] -

35:14, 35:16

fishing [3] -

12:13, 31:27,

44:17

fit [1] - 58:23

five [2] - 66:9,

66:13

flaw [1] - 54:20

flawed [5] -

62:9, 62:12,

62:21, 69:17,

70:6

Fleming [1] -

21:14

flesh [1] - 28:9

flippant [1] -

13:1

flora [2] - 5:28,

11:28

flow [1] - 9:13

fluid" [1] - 28:10

flushing [1] -

9:16

follow [1] -

28:26

following [4] -

9:18, 38:11,

67:16, 68:5

FOLLOWS [3] -

5:2, 57:1, 66:1

Food [2] - 20:17,

41:23

food [11] - 8:1,

8:3, 8:16, 29:2,

29:11, 29:16,

30:7, 31:4, 31:7,

31:8, 55:15

footprint [5] -

29:19, 29:23,

29:25, 30:1

FOR [1] - 56:29

FORESHORE

[1] - 3:31

foreshore [1] -

54:26

Foreshore [2] -

55:26, 60:1

forgot [1] -

64:10

form [2] - 13:11,

60:14

formality [1] -

18:22

formally [1] -

59:3

formed [3] -


6

10:23, 41:14,

57:11

fortune [1] -

13:3

forward [1] -

43:6

foul [1] - 32:11

fouling [1] -

32:10

four [2] - 66:9,

66:12

fourth [1] - 7:14

frame [1] - 42:5

framework [3] -

7:15, 14:1, 14:7

Fraser [1] - 35:9

fraud [5] - 25:7,

25:9, 25:11,

25:15

free [1] - 35:17

freshwater [9] -

5:16, 5:20, 5:28,

10:12, 22:27,

22:28, 23:1,

36:19, 38:17

Friday [1] - 50:2

FRIENDS [1] -

3:23

friends [1] -

34:25

front [3] - 21:8,

23:9, 63:23

full [6] - 8:24,

39:21, 54:14,

64:13, 64:14

fully [1] - 16:18

fundamental [5]

- 49:3, 54:19,

54:20, 61:13,

63:15

fundamentally

[4] - 48:25, 62:9,

62:11, 62:21

future [1] - 38:19

G

GALWAY [2] -

3:12, 3:13

Galway [4] -

16:27, 33:8, 37:7,

37:9

game [1] - 6:5

Gargan [2] -

35:22, 36:5

GARGAN [1] -

3:26

gathered [1] -

56:4

GBASC [3] -

3:14, 3:15, 3:16

general [1] -

54:7

generally [2] -

10:9, 40:22

gentleman [1] -

19:24

Germany [1] -

32:17

given [11] - 9:2,

13:1, 17:16,

17:17, 32:22,

36:26, 43:13,

46:28, 48:4,

48:15, 54:11

Glengariff [1] -

10:1

Glengarriff [6] -

7:27, 8:5, 25:20,

26:5, 26:11, 28:1

gluten [1] - 31:4

good's [1] - 5:14

government [1]

- 28:12

Grace [1] - 19:25

grades [1] -

21:20

graham [1] -

33:17

grammes [1] -

28:9

grant [2] - 10:25,

14:18

granted [2] -

14:9, 62:13

grateful [1] -

60:15

gravel [2] -

21:19, 44:13

greater [2] -

28:8, 68:13

GREENE [1] -

3:17

grew [2] - 25:20

gross [1] - 38:20

ground [2] -

44:13, 68:3

grounds [2] -

44:17, 45:28

group [1] - 41:5

groupings [1] -

16:5

groups [3] -

15:27, 15:28,

19:28

growth [1] -

35:26

H

habitat's [5] -

5:19, 5:21, 5:23,

7:7, 7:28

habitats [1] -

5:27

half [3] - 25:21,

46:19, 46:26

hand [2] - 9:9,

42:2

handed [1] -

8:23

hands [1] -

12:27

Harbour [3] -

26:5, 26:11, 28:1

harbour [2] -

26:19, 26:26

hard [1] - 29:7

HARRINGTON/

O'SULLIVAN [1] -

3:6

Harvest [26] -

24:3, 32:4, 37:8,

37:11, 37:21,

37:23, 38:23,

39:5, 41:25,

42:26, 50:5,

50:12, 51:14,

53:2, 53:6, 53:8,

53:10, 54:21,

54:24, 54:27,

55:13, 56:2,

57:14, 57:20,

68:24, 69:10

HARVEST [1] -

3:2

Harvest's [1] -

37:22

harvested [1] -

32:1

head [5] - 9:15,

9:25, 34:25,

42:29, 47:23

Head [11] - 6:10,

9:21, 23:14,

23:15, 23:25,

31:16, 42:28,

42:29, 44:9,

68:26, 70:2

heading [1] -

47:19

health [4] -

20:11, 29:2, 30:6

healthy [1] -

20:27

hear [8] - 5:7,

16:24, 31:18,

32:22, 45:12,

51:26, 60:27,

61:1

heard [9] - 8:21,

16:25, 24:22,

24:25, 30:17,

36:16, 43:17,

43:26, 65:5

hearing [30] -

8:21, 31:10,

31:14, 31:19,

32:25, 33:6,

34:16, 47:17,

53:7, 54:22,

64:27, 65:2, 65:3,

66:28, 67:2, 67:6,

67:15, 69:7,

69:12, 69:14,

69:15, 69:16,

69:19, 69:22,

69:23, 69:24,

70:3, 70:4, 70:5

Hearing/

Appeal [1] - 33:13

hearings [1] -

10:13

heavier [1] -

31:23

held [1] - 14:5

hello [2] - 39:9,

40:23

help [2] - 17:23,

19:2

high [2] - 35:24,

35:25

higher [1] - 8:16

highlighted [1] -

34:19

Hill [1] - 21:17

hissing [1] -

40:15

historical [1] -

36:7

hit [2] - 8:26,

39:22

HODNETT [1] -

4:1

hold [1] - 45:12

holder [1] - 50:5

holders [2] -

40:27, 41:5

holding [1] -

22:20

home [1] - 9:27

hope [1] - 21:7

host's [1] -

27:22

hosts [1] - 35:25

hours [1] - 24:26

house [3] - 21:9,

61:13, 61:14

households [1]

- 22:4

huge [1] - 61:4

human [5] -

11:28, 29:8,

45:29, 46:24,

61:13

hundred [6] -

6:4, 21:11, 26:10,

26:14, 28:9,

31:29

HUNT [3] - 3:21,

3:22

hydrodynamic

[8] - 43:28, 52:20,

52:26, 53:15,

53:22, 55:19,

57:8, 66:7

hyperdynamic

[1] - 52:14

hypothesise [1]

- 12:21

I

identified [1] -

10:5

identify [4] -

6:11, 7:9, 7:20,

14:25

ignore [2] - 6:13

ignores [2] -

9:18, 9:25

illustrate [1] -

26:1

immediate [1] -

8:4

immediately [1]

- 33:22

immunity [1] -

27:22

impact [15] -

6:11, 8:12, 11:23,

11:27, 11:28,

12:2, 12:28,

13:10, 13:12,

34:11, 38:13,

38:15, 41:12,

45:29

Impact [5] -

7:13, 10:2, 11:12,

14:25, 24:9

impacts [4] -

11:9, 14:26,

35:29, 36:15

implement [1] -

50:23

implementing

[1] - 61:13

importance [3] -

5:15, 6:24, 44:8

important [9] -

19:14, 23:29,

33:21, 33:24,

34:20, 34:27,

38:16, 60:29,

66:5

importantly [1] -

8:2

impossible [1] -

51:6

impossibly [1] -

6:1

impression [1] -

26:8

improve [1] - 9:3

inadequate [1] -

40:5

inappropriate

[2] - 39:14, 39:15

include [8] -

7:20, 7:24, 19:4,

22:2, 35:19,

41:13, 49:11,

67:19

included [6] -

17:25, 33:21,

41:11, 44:17,

50:27

including [2] -

41:9, 57:28

incompetence

[1] - 33:23

incorporate [1] -

41:6

incorrect [2] -

47:11, 47:16

increase [1] -

35:27

indebted [1] -

33:18

indicator [1] -

46:13

indirect [1] -

12:10

individual [4] -

14:10, 16:6,

43:22, 67:1

individuals [3] -

20:27, 41:5,

41:10

industry [6] -

27:7, 28:13,

28:21, 28:28,

38:1, 38:27

infected [1] -

9:27

Inflammation [1]


7

- 17:27

inflow [1] -

23:18

information [49]

- 7:19, 8:20, 9:1,

9:4, 10:11, 10:17,

10:19, 10:24,

10:25, 10:28,

14:27, 20:9, 22:1,

25:8, 25:11,

25:19, 34:27,

35:23, 36:8,

37:10, 37:14,

37:18, 39:8,

41:22, 41:24,

43:12, 44:11,

52:16, 53:5,

53:18, 54:25,

55:9, 57:12,

57:21, 59:5, 59:8,

60:7, 64:3, 64:12,

66:20, 68:12,

68:19, 68:22,

68:23, 69:8,

69:10, 69:25,

69:29, 70:1

Information [1] -

37:6

information" [1]

- 50:7

informed [2] -

63:16, 67:1

inhales [1] -

29:20

initial [2] - 8:29,

15:7

initiating [1] -

6:29

injected [1] -

27:15

INLAND [2] -

3:26, 3:30

inner [1] - 28:6

input [1] - 46:5

inquest [1] -

31:14

inquiry [2] -

64:6, 64:7

Inquiry [2] -

6:29, 61:4

inspection [2] -

57:23, 63:5

inspector [4] -

47:7, 53:3, 61:3,

64:10

Inspector [1] -

54:5

installations [1]

- 38:6

instance [1] -

16:8

instead [1] -

6:25

Institute [10] -

24:4, 27:28,

29:14, 37:9,

37:11, 37:21,

44:16, 54:2, 54:6,

54:8

INSTITUTE [1] -

4:8

Institute's [1] -

37:16

institutional [1]

- 16:15

instruction [1] -

43:12

integrated [1] -

36:23

intend [1] - 40:1

intended [2] -

15:10, 16:18

inter [1] - 28:10

inter-valthera

[1] - 28:10

interaction [4] -

11:20, 11:22,

11:25, 12:17

interest [7] -

5:29, 15:26,

15:28, 16:17,

56:5, 69:1, 70:2

interest" [1] -

5:28

interested [4] -

5:14, 61:5, 67:7,

69:26

interests [2] -

41:10, 41:11

interpreted [1] -

14:8

interruption [1] -

46:29

introduce [1] -

19:13

introduced [2] -

19:12, 32:9

invite [1] - 66:28

involve [1] -

67:25

involved [4] -

22:25, 33:14,

42:21, 46:3

involvement [1]

- 34:4

Ireland [10] -

13:3, 32:13, 38:3,

38:28, 39:6,

41:13, 42:22,

42:26, 50:5

IRELAND [3] -

3:2, 3:17, 3:30

Irish [5] - 28:18,

40:10, 41:1, 46:5,

69:5

IRISH [2] - 3:23,

3:28

irrelevant [1] -

58:2

issue [6] - 6:13,

12:20, 15:19,

26:1, 40:24, 45:7

issued [1] -

52:16

issues [7] -

13:29, 29:2,

40:13, 43:22,

46:14, 47:13,

50:12

it" [1] - 29:24

item [3] - 36:22,

50:3, 50:8

items [1] - 43:20

itself [3] - 16:1,

44:14, 60:14

J

JAN [1] - 3:5

January [1] -

64:24

JEFFREY [1] -

4:9

jeopardise [2] -

14:20, 14:21

jeopardises [1] -

14:12

jetty [1] - 23:9

job [1] - 43:18

John [2] - 16:26,

17:20

JOHN [4] - 3:19,

3:21, 3:32

join [1] - 37:24

joked [1] - 25:22

Judge [1] - 68:2

judgement [3] -

64:17, 68:1, 68:5

judicis [1] - 68:4

justice [2] -

59:9, 65:4

justified [1] -

37:16

juvenile [1] -

38:5

K

keep [3] - 11:1,

42:5, 42:6

Kelly [1] - 35:1

kept [2] - 51:10,

51:13

KEVIN [1] - 4:1

key [2] - 31:21,

34:7

Kieran [1] - 8:9

kilometre [1] -

34:2

kind [1] - 27:17

knock [1] - 8:14

knowledge [2] -

34:9, 34:11

known [2] -

55:28, 67:3

knows [1] - 20:1

L

label [2] - 20:14,

21:1

lack [1] - 38:19

lacking [2] -

48:25, 50:28

laid [1] - 14:15

land [1] - 26:20

language [1] -

36:9

lapse [1] - 34:4

large [1] - 46:29

last [7] - 6:7,

16:11, 21:21,

21:22, 24:21,

31:13, 50:2

late [1] - 6:28

laterally [1] - 9:2

laureate [1] -

30:27

Law [3] - 19:4,

19:20, 19:21

law [3] - 19:10,

19:17, 62:15

laws [1] - 50:22

layer [1] - 32:16

layman's [1] -

36:9

leaches [1] -

32:11

lead [1] - 13:22

leads [1] - 16:2

learn [3] - 19:29,

29:27, 38:24

learned [1] -

25:22

learnt [1] - 33:19

least [6] - 7:20,

12:29, 13:12,

25:28, 41:20,

54:28

leave [1] - 29:18

led [1] - 58:5

Lee [1] - 21:17

left [3] - 26:14,

26:21, 39:2

legal [2] - 25:6,

59:5

Legislation [1] -

40:11

legislation [9] -

41:2, 42:16, 61:6,

61:8, 61:10,

61:29, 62:3,

62:19, 64:13

leniency [1] -

15:12

less [6] - 15:10,

20:6, 26:9, 36:20,

56:11

letter [3] - 15:8,

15:11, 64:5

level [3] - 11:20,

11:25, 21:26

LEWIS [1] - 3:24

lice [15] - 8:1,

9:14, 9:16, 9:21,

22:23, 34:19,

35:28, 36:11,

38:13, 43:29,

46:14, 56:9,

57:11, 57:17

licence [8] -

10:25, 14:18,

22:26, 47:12,

50:5, 57:13

License [1] -

54:16

license [2] -

55:4, 55:6

licensing [2] -

43:5, 43:13

life [4] - 6:4,

12:28, 27:16,

31:15

light [6] - 64:20,

64:23, 66:4,

66:26, 67:4,

67:16

likely [4] - 6:11,

6:19, 7:21, 13:10

limbs [1] - 29:22

limit [1] - 31:17

limited [1] -

33:13

limiting [2] -

15:8, 44:13

links [1] - 31:8

list [2] - 20:6,

52:6

lives [1] - 31:17

living [1] - 45:24

local [5] - 11:23,

21:5, 41:9, 41:20,

56:10

location [1] -

48:5

lodged [2] -

41:18, 55:7

logic [1] - 20:23

look [8] - 18:8,

18:21, 22:15,

37:22, 43:23,

53:1, 61:26,

61:27

looked [3] -

12:18, 18:28,

52:28

looking [6] -

11:1, 11:29, 12:2,

18:7, 62:6, 62:16

loose [1] - 25:16

lose [1] - 68:28

loss [3] - 34:1,

35:15, 35:16

lost [1] - 31:15

lovely [1] - 54:17

low [2] - 9:1, 9:5

Lowes [1] - 58:4

LOWES [1] -

3:25

LUIJKEN [1] -

55:11

lunch [1] - 65:13

lung [1] - 29:20

M

madly [1] -

54:10

mail [2] - 55:14,

61:20

mailed [1] -

62:26

main [3] - 6:2,

7:21, 43:26

maintain [1] -

5:26

MAIRE [1] - 3:15

major [3] -

12:21, 46:5,

50:20

managed [1] -

69:18

management


8

[10] - 36:24,

36:27, 36:28,

37:2, 37:23,

37:27, 38:18,

38:21, 54:26

Management [2]

- 55:26, 60:1

manipulate [1] -

23:28

manner [2] -

13:29, 64:8

map [1] - 23:14

maps [1] - 44:15

marine [2] -

8:15, 35:28

MARINE [3] -

3:2, 4:5, 4:8

Marine [37] -

24:3, 24:4, 27:28,

32:4, 37:8, 37:11,

37:20, 37:21,

37:23, 38:23,

39:5, 41:23,

41:25, 42:26,

44:15, 50:5,

50:12, 51:14,

53:2, 53:6, 53:8,

53:10, 54:2, 54:6,

54:8, 54:21,

54:24, 54:27,

55:13, 56:2,

57:14, 57:20,

68:24, 69:10

MARK [1] - 3:10

market [1] - 21:4

Massachusetts

[1] - 29:14

material [4] -

18:20, 59:11,

67:17, 68:20

matter [6] - 13:3,

34:20, 34:29,

46:13, 54:5, 56:7

matters [3] -

34:8, 34:15,

37:26

mature [1] -

33:27

MCMAHON [1] -

4:8

MCMANUS [5] -

39:9, 39:26,

40:23, 47:21,

56:22

McMANUS [1] -

3:2

McPARTLAND

[1] - 3:30

MD [1] - 3:5

meal [1] - 12:12

Mealagh [1] -

10:3

mean [4] -

17:11, 18:25,

22:14, 31:17

meaning [1] -

14:8

means [1] -

36:20

measures [3] -

5:24, 6:20, 6:23

meat [1] - 21:1

medications [2]

- 20:26, 46:13

meet [1] - 34:24

meeting [1] -

48:22

member [5] -

14:8, 15:28, 16:6,

18:29

members [5] -

18:6, 18:8, 18:26,

64:4, 67:7

men [2] - 39:22,

44:28

mend [3] - 9:8,

48:27, 49:2

mention [7] -

11:8, 11:9, 11:13,

19:14, 29:2,

50:29, 64:16

mentioned [9] -

7:16, 9:13, 12:11,

15:3, 19:3, 35:1,

35:22, 35:23,

47:24

mentions [1] -

50:26

mercury [1] -

27:18

metabolic [1] -

46:21

metacoeloma

[1] - 29:21

metals [1] - 29:8

methodologies

[2] - 43:10, 46:11

metres [5] -

21:10, 21:11,

21:13, 26:14,

56:11

Mhara [1] - 24:4

MHI [2] - 52:26,

52:27

mic [3] - 45:12,

50:19, 57:29

MICHAEL [1] -

3:30

microorganism

s [1] - 8:14

microphone [2]

- 16:29, 40:16

mid [1] - 57:12

mid-

application [1] -

57:12

might [8] - 5:17,

8:26, 12:21, 13:5,

17:22, 19:2, 29:1,

37:5

milieu [1] -

29:26

million [2] -

20:19, 21:13

mills [2] - 29:25,

29:26

mind [1] - 68:25

minds [1] - 25:6

minimal [1] -

11:21

mining [1] -

21:19

Minister [3] -

16:10, 62:20,

62:21

Minister's [2] -

60:13, 60:15

minute [1] - 15:8

minutes [6] -

30:8, 30:10,

30:12, 50:14,

56:27

miserably [1] -

54:22

mislabelling [1]

- 21:3

misquoting [1] -

63:21

misrepresent

[2] - 25:9, 25:10

misunderstand

ing [1] - 12:6

mitigation [2] -

6:20, 6:23

mls [2] - 26:10,

27:4

mobile [1] -

40:18

model [16] -

43:28, 43:29,

44:2, 52:13,

52:15, 52:20,

52:26, 53:1,

53:15, 53:22,

53:23, 55:19,

57:8, 66:7

modelling [4] -

52:8, 52:10,

52:11, 53:14

modern [1] -

62:15

modify [1] - 15:9

moment [3] -

50:25, 51:5, 62:7

monitored [1] -

34:21

months [2] -

20:21, 20:22

mordern [1] -

46:11

morning [5] -

5:4, 5:10, 15:5,

42:20, 67:1

Morton [1] - 35:7

most [4] - 20:15,

23:9, 27:21,

69:18

mountain [3] -

21:23, 21:25,

26:20

move [9] - 7:13,

13:29, 24:21,

24:27, 25:1, 30:4,

44:6, 45:6, 62:24

moved [1] - 5:5

movement [1] -

34:20

movements [1] -

34:19

moves [1] - 33:6

moving [4] -

30:5, 34:15,

35:21, 36:14

MPNs [1] - 28:8

MR [205] - 5:4,

5:10, 16:23,

16:29, 17:6, 17:8,

17:11, 17:12,

17:14, 17:15,

17:19, 17:21,

17:29, 18:1, 18:3,

18:6, 18:8, 18:10,

18:11, 18:12,

18:16, 18:19,

19:2, 19:6, 19:7,

19:8, 19:9, 19:10,

19:12, 19:17,

19:19, 19:22,

19:23, 23:24,

23:25, 23:26,

23:27, 24:6, 24:8,

24:10, 24:13,

24:14, 24:16,

24:18, 24:20,

24:21, 24:26,

24:27, 24:29,

25:2, 25:3, 25:6,

25:12, 25:14,

30:3, 30:5, 30:6,

30:8, 30:11,

30:13, 30:15,

30:18, 30:20,

30:22, 31:5,

31:12, 31:20,

31:22, 32:18,

32:20, 32:21,

32:27, 32:29,

33:1, 33:2, 33:3,

33:5, 33:10, 39:1,

39:10, 39:13,

39:14, 39:15,

39:17, 39:18,

39:20, 39:23,

40:12, 40:16,

40:18, 40:20,

40:21, 40:22,

42:4, 42:8, 42:9,

42:19, 45:8, 45:9,

45:10, 45:12,

45:13, 46:16,

46:17, 46:18,

47:2, 47:7, 47:12,

47:14, 47:17,

47:19, 47:22,

47:24, 47:25,

47:26, 48:2, 48:8,

48:11, 48:13,

48:17, 48:20,

48:24, 49:7,

49:14, 49:19,

49:21, 49:24,

49:26, 49:28,

50:17, 50:18,

50:19, 51:18,

51:20, 51:21,

51:24, 51:25,

51:27, 51:29,

52:3, 53:3, 53:9,

53:14, 53:20,

53:24, 53:29,

54:5, 54:14,

54:17, 55:1, 55:4,

55:11, 55:18,

55:22, 56:15,

56:21, 56:26,

57:3, 57:26,

57:27, 57:29,

59:3, 59:22,

59:23, 59:24,

59:25, 60:10,

60:11, 60:22,

60:24, 60:26,

61:3, 61:17,

61:18, 61:21,

61:23, 61:26,

62:23, 62:26,

63:3, 63:6, 63:8,

63:9, 63:26,

64:10, 64:19,

64:20, 65:11,

65:12, 66:3,

66:15, 66:17,

66:26, 67:9,

67:12, 67:13,

67:14, 68:9,

68:10, 68:16,

68:18, 68:21,

68:23, 69:3, 70:7

MS [13] - 18:14,

18:17, 18:24,

39:9, 39:25,

39:26, 40:23,

47:21, 55:3, 55:6,

55:21, 56:22,

61:20

MURPHY [1] -

3:19

MURPHY/

FORKER [1] - 3:7

mussel [16] -

5:17, 5:20, 5:29,

6:6, 21:5, 27:9,

29:1, 29:7, 33:21,

36:15, 36:19,

36:20, 38:18,

44:3, 48:23,

68:27

mussels [2] -

23:21, 29:3

mussels" [1] -

47:24

must [7] - 6:11,

10:23, 14:8,

14:17, 23:9, 52:6,

54:20

N

name [4] -

28:22, 28:28,

42:20, 69:3

namely [1] -

38:17

Nation' [1] -

17:27

national [1] -

41:21

natural [4] -

5:27, 11:29, 59:9,

65:3

nature [2] - 12:6,

34:17

Naturschutz [1]

- 14:4

near [1] - 8:4

nearest [1] -

33:19

nearing [1] - 6:5

necessary [2] -

6:17, 10:24


9

need [7] - 10:4,

12:12, 13:23,

19:19, 31:20,

69:14, 69:23

needed [1] -

13:15

needs [1] -

69:29

negative [1] -

11:23

neglect [1] -

27:12

negligence [1] -

38:20

NEIL [1] - 3:3

Neil [4] - 24:4,

40:2, 42:2, 42:20

net [2] - 67:22,

67:23

nets [1] - 38:1

never [2] -

54:18, 55:16

new [19] - 19:29,

22:1, 23:20,

43:10, 47:14,

47:17, 67:17,

67:20, 68:18,

68:20, 68:22,

68:23, 69:12,

69:14, 69:23,

69:24, 69:25,

70:4

newspapers [2]

- 41:20, 41:21

next [6] - 9:23,

19:2, 26:26, 42:6,

61:24, 66:18

NI [1] - 3:14

NIALL [1] - 3:17

NICOLE [1] - 4:3

nitrate [1] - 12:5

nitrogen [1] -

46:7

Nobel [1] - 30:27

nobody [1] -

52:28

nomination [1] -

16:10

none [1] - 16:12

nonetheless [1]

- 46:15

Nore [1] - 6:3

normal [1] -

62:18

normally [2] -

50:22

north [2] - 34:23,

44:20

North [1] - 12:16

nose [1] - 68:25

note [3] - 34:18,

34:29, 44:15

noted [1] - 62:23

nothing [2] -

58:27, 62:29

notice [6] -

10:19, 10:23,

46:27, 63:13,

66:27, 67:5

notification [1] -

5:18

notified [1] -

15:16

notify [1] - 66:12

novo [1] - 62:16

nowm [1] -

26:24

number [11] -

19:8, 27:29, 28:5,

35:25, 36:10,

36:11, 37:1,

41:20, 43:17,

45:29, 66:5

numerous [1] -

57:27

nutrient [1] -

46:13

O

O'BRIEN [1] -

3:9

o'clock [1] -

65:14

O'DOHERTY [1]

- 69:3

O'Doherty [1] -

69:4

O'DONOVAN [4]

- 48:8, 48:13,

48:20, 63:26

O'HARA [8] -

18:14, 18:17,

18:24, 39:25,

55:3, 55:6, 55:21,

61:20

O'KEEFE [1] -

4:2

O'Keeffe [5] -

16:27, 17:20,

30:3, 32:18,

39:18

O'KEEFFE [41] -

17:21, 18:1, 18:6,

18:10, 18:12,

18:16, 18:19,

19:2, 19:7, 19:9,

19:12, 19:19,

19:23, 23:25,

23:27, 24:6, 24:8,

24:13, 24:16,

24:20, 24:26,

24:29, 25:3, 25:6,

25:14, 30:5, 30:8,

30:13, 30:18,

30:22, 31:12,

31:22, 32:20,

33:1, 33:3, 39:13,

39:15, 39:20,

47:24, 68:18,

68:23

O'LEARY [1] -

3:1

O'MAOLAIN [3]

- 3:18, 67:14,

68:10

O'SHEA [1] - 4:3

O'Shea [3] - 8:9,

44:8, 44:26

O'SULLIVAN [1]

- 4:5

object [6] -

33:11, 53:3, 53:4,

59:3, 64:8

objection [1] -

54:18

objective [1] -

46:9

obligation [2] -

5:18, 59:6

obligations [1] -

67:10

observations [2]

- 43:19, 57:20

observed [1] -

44:12

obtain [1] -

64:25

obvious [2] -

29:19, 68:24

obviously [4] -

8:23, 18:25,

36:15, 36:18

occasion [1] -

16:11

occasions [1] -

27:15

ocean [1] -

31:25

odds [1] - 52:4

OF [3] - 3:23,

3:28, 5:1

offence [1] -

64:18

office [3] -

18:14, 18:19,

18:24

offices [2] -

57:23, 58:1

officials [1] -

33:28

oil [1] - 12:26

old [2] - 33:29,

53:17

omitted [1] -

27:28

ON [1] - 5:1

once [3] - 14:27,

21:12, 62:9

one [32] - 11:12,

12:21, 13:4,

13:11, 14:3,

15:28, 18:25,

19:17, 20:1,

23:20, 24:2, 27:6,

28:7, 28:8, 33:3,

36:29, 38:19,

39:1, 39:23, 42:6,

46:2, 51:11,

51:17, 52:19,

55:16, 58:14,

59:2, 63:2, 66:14,

67:1, 69:11

ones [2] - 27:2,

31:18

open [7] - 10:29,

11:1, 11:18,

31:25, 35:6,

35:10, 64:28

opening [3] -

15:4, 15:5, 33:16

operation [1] -

46:12

opinion [3] -

10:16, 10:23,

58:5

opportunist [1] -

31:29

opportunities

[1] - 9:8

opportunity [10]

- 9:3, 15:17,

24:19, 39:26,

46:28, 50:12,

65:5, 65:9, 66:3,

67:19

option [1] -

10:29

Oral [1] - 33:12

oral [9] - 31:9,

32:25, 33:6,

34:16, 64:26,

65:1, 66:28, 67:2,

67:6

order [5] - 6:19,

14:24, 45:8,

46:16, 48:8

organic [6] -

20:12, 20:13,

20:14, 20:16,

20:25, 27:25

organisations

[1] - 41:5

original [7] -

6:14, 17:4, 17:9,

55:4, 55:6, 56:21,

57:13

originally [1] -

21:23

otherwise [1] -

60:27

otter [5] - 7:5,

7:7, 7:10, 10:8,

68:28

otters [3] - 7:6,

7:25, 8:17

outcome [1] -

13:19

outflow [1] -

23:18

outgoing [1] -

9:22

outline [1] -

15:20

outlined [1] -

11:20

outlining [1] -

15:8

outset [3] - 15:4,

40:7, 40:27

outside [2] -

10:3, 10:4

Ouvane [1] -

10:3

overall [1] -

53:18

overlooked [1] -

33:23

OWEN [1] - 3:11

own [4] - 12:23,

22:4, 60:28,

64:23

oxymoron [2] -

20:14, 20:15

P

pace [1] - 34:11

package [2] -

53:19, 54:15

Paddy [2] -

35:22, 36:5

page [3] - 11:13,

62:27, 63:18

pages [2] -

61:21, 63:1

painfully [1] -

68:24

paint [1] - 32:11

panel [1] - 16:11

paper [3] -

49:17, 49:20,

54:13

papers [5] -

8:22, 35:21, 36:3,

38:12, 55:7

paragraph [3] -

5:23, 7:16, 14:5

parasite [1] -

35:26

pardon [1] - 19:9

paring [2] -

28:23

paring" [1] -

28:28

part [21] - 15:5,

23:10, 26:5,

32:27, 33:18,

35:15, 42:13,

42:22, 52:5,

52:16, 52:17,

53:18, 54:3,

54:14, 54:26,

55:3, 55:8, 56:21,

57:11, 60:6,

60:14

partially [1] -

68:11

participate [1] -

41:28

participation [6]

- 40:3, 40:25,

41:17, 59:13,

65:7, 68:12

particular [3] -

8:8, 45:28, 56:7

particularly [3] -

8:4, 8:18, 13:1

particulars [1] -

10:17

parties [5] -

41:3, 56:4, 59:6,

65:5, 68:7

party [1] - 55:8

passed" [1] -

14:15

passing [1] -

9:26

past [2] - 9:21,

44:10

patches [1] -

52:12

PATRICK [1] -

3:26

PDF [1] - 39:13

peadar [1] -

67:13

PEADAR [1] -


10

3:18

pearl [20] - 5:16,

5:20, 5:29, 6:6,

10:12, 21:5,

23:21, 27:9, 29:1,

29:3, 29:7, 33:21,

36:15, 36:19,

36:20, 38:17,

44:3, 47:24,

48:22, 68:27

peer [2] - 36:5,

38:12

pencil [1] -

28:24

pens [1] - 45:3

people [20] -

18:14, 20:25,

20:26, 22:25,

24:24, 26:7,

26:12, 29:21,

30:18, 31:15,

32:9, 32:22,

34:18, 45:24,

46:23, 54:9,

56:13, 57:3,

64:21, 69:18

per [8] - 7:6,

21:10, 26:10,

27:4, 28:9, 45:21,

45:22, 45:23

percent [2] -

44:22, 46:7

perfect [1] -

20:15

perfected [1] -

43:10

perfectly [1] -

47:4

perhaps [2] -

46:1, 56:8

period [5] -

31:28, 32:3,

34:26, 41:29,

66:8

permission [1] -

62:12

permit [1] -

61:29

permitted [2] -

21:21, 67:24

persist [1] - 9:7

person [4] -

17:3, 20:12,

58:23, 70:2

perturbed [1] -

36:25

pest [1] - 36:23

phone [1] -

40:19

phones [1] -

60:10

photocopy [1] -

64:1

photographed

[1] - 23:8

photographer

[1] - 61:27

photographs [1]

- 25:10

picked [1] -

27:15

picking [1] -

28:28

picture [3] -

25:14, 26:15,

26:22

pictures [3] -

23:27, 61:25,

63:1

pieces [1] -

46:29

Pier [1] - 24:10

pier [1] - 24:14

pipes [2] - 23:6,

23:7

place [9] - 6:20,

13:21, 33:12,

35:5, 58:25,

61:12, 63:12,

66:28, 70:4

placed [1] -

59:28

places [1] - 13:5

plain [1] - 27:12

plan [3] - 13:19,

36:24, 37:3

plans [1] - 36:24

point [31] - 7:5,

7:14, 13:8, 15:16,

16:3, 25:19, 30:6,

31:6, 37:29,

42:17, 43:7, 45:8,

45:19, 46:9,

46:16, 47:28,

48:8, 50:2, 51:26,

51:27, 52:24,

53:16, 58:10,

59:1, 59:19, 61:8,

63:9, 63:10,

67:26, 67:28

pointed [2] -

43:3, 51:22

points [10] -

5:14, 7:3, 9:19,

30:21, 31:21,

32:24, 47:5,

48:13, 48:18,

52:19

police [1] -

28:13

policy [2] -

35:14, 35:16

politely [1] -

64:2

political [1] -

47:8

polluted [2] -

22:7, 23:10

polluter [1] -

23:11

pollution [1] -

12:5

pontoon [1] -

26:14

poor [1] - 58:13

population [4] -

12:2, 35:26,

46:22, 46:25

populations [4]

- 6:2, 10:8, 10:12

Portlaois [1] -

63:27

position [11] -

16:13, 17:2, 17:3,

17:8, 17:11,

40:14, 42:10,

63:8, 63:9, 64:23,

64:26

positions [2] -

67:22, 67:23

positive [1] -

36:10

possible [4] -

33:11, 41:7,

41:27, 64:8

possibly [4] -

15:3, 31:10, 38:3,

61:19

postdates [1] -

60:13

postpone [2] -

69:13, 69:15

postponement

[1] - 69:6

potential [4] -

8:10, 14:14,

14:22, 35:25

potentially [1] -

12:20

pots [1] - 44:28

potting [3] -

44:9, 44:17, 45:2

poultry [1] - 21:1

power [3] -

13:21, 57:18,

57:19

practical [1] -

38:28

preamble [1] -

20:18

pregnant [2] -

20:22, 20:23

prejudice [2] -

15:13, 15:29

present [3] -

23:21, 68:18,

68:20

presentation [4]

- 5:8, 17:23,

25:13, 47:6

presentations

[1] - 39:28

presented [3] -

18:13, 57:25,

62:5

presenter [1] -

40:4

presents [1] -

61:15

presume [3] -

46:23, 51:8,

63:17

pretty [2] - 45:3,

58:12

prevent [3] -

35:4, 38:2, 38:4

previously [1] -

9:9

primarily [1] -

42:22

primary [1] -

46:2

private [1] -

41:10

PRO [1] - 3:13

pro [2] - 54:9,

54:10

probative [1] -

5:12

problem [4] -

12:27, 61:4, 63:7

procedure [3] -

15:7, 23:17,

24:23

procedures [3] -

15:3, 33:14, 63:3

proceed [6] -

10:25, 25:12,

47:26, 49:7,

55:22, 55:24

proceeding [1] -

64:9

PROCEEDING

S [6] - 5:1, 56:29,

57:1, 65:16, 66:1,

70:10

proceedings [3]

- 17:5, 65:9,

68:14

process [13] -

6:28, 10:26,

13:22, 14:17,

30:15, 30:17,

30:18, 38:25,

43:6, 52:17,

54:27, 56:14,

60:20

processed [2] -

31:4, 32:2

processors [1] -

32:6

produce [2] -

49:17, 62:10

produced [2] -

30:7, 62:28

produces [1] -

50:24

producing [1] -

47:14

product [1] -

68:29

production [1] -

45:20

professional [2]

- 41:8, 58:28

Professor [6] -

17:22, 17:26,

19:4, 19:20,

19:21, 30:26

profound [1] -

69:12

project [5] -

7:21, 14:10,

14:29, 31:16,

63:1

projector [1] -

39:24

promote [1] -

28:12

promotes [1] -

35:25

proper [7] -

12:8, 15:29, 51:1,

58:15, 58:23,

68:12

properly [5] -

7:2, 8:11, 13:26,

61:14, 69:28

proposal [1] -

38:10

propose [1] -

66:8

proposed [7] -

6:10, 12:11,

16:12, 17:3,

33:20, 34:3,

46:11

prospect [1] -

48:5

protected [4] -

7:7, 7:8, 8:12,

8:18

protection [1] -

5:22

protest [1] -

69:20

protocol [1] -

30:25

proved [1] -

38:12

proven [1] - 62:8

provide [4] -

16:4, 39:7, 50:6,

68:12

provided [4] -

7:19, 35:25, 68:6,

69:8

provides [4] -

10:14, 15:26,

16:5, 34:27

public [26] -

21:2, 31:18, 32:2,

40:3, 40:25,

42:11, 42:12,

43:15, 49:18,

51:13, 54:7,

54:11, 56:5,

58:12, 58:15,

59:13, 60:6, 60:8,

66:27, 66:29,

67:5, 67:6, 67:7,

69:2, 69:27

publicising [1] -

34:5

published [3] -

8:27, 36:3, 41:23

pull [1] - 23:2

pump [2] -

21:22, 21:27

pumping [1] -

21:27

pure [1] - 26:12

purple [1] -

26:17

purported [2] -

17:3, 60:25

purpose [1] -

13:18

purposes [1] -

10:18

pursuant [1] -

5:24

put [17] - 6:20,

13:21, 21:1, 21:7,

22:13, 22:15,

23:1, 23:13,

26:13, 28:20,

39:17, 46:24,

49:2, 57:8, 58:20,

60:24, 63:15


11

Q

qualifications

[1] - 25:19

quality [1] - 9:3

quantity [1] -

44:19

quarry [7] -

21:14, 21:17,

21:18, 21:22,

21:23, 22:28,

23:9

Quarry [1] -

21:14

query [1] - 15:23

questions [4] -

16:20, 17:22,

48:11, 55:14

quickly [2] -

30:21, 43:20

QUINLAN [4] -

3:32, 59:23,

59:25, 60:11

quite [5] - 17:16,

25:8, 37:1, 44:14,

44:18

quota [1] - 35:19

quotas [1] -

35:15

quoting [2] -

63:21, 63:23

R

raft [1] - 46:1

raised [8] - 40:4,

43:20, 47:13,

49:25, 49:28,

50:13, 51:22

range [3] -

19:10, 41:3, 46:6

RAPHAEL [1] -

4:6

rapidly [1] -

24:24

rate [2] - 46:3,

68:11

rates [2] - 46:21

rather [3] - 9:7,

50:24, 52:13

raw [2] - 26:5,

26:22

reach [2] -

14:24, 43:7

react [1] - 27:23

reaction [1] -

40:18

read [14] - 17:27,

17:28, 18:10,

18:12, 18:16,

18:17, 18:23,

18:28, 32:27,

33:17, 58:7,

61:23, 62:29,

63:18

reading [2] -

18:26, 20:6

really [5] - 41:6,

41:14, 52:21,

56:12, 63:29

reason [5] -

8:28, 18:2, 48:22,

51:10, 55:27

reasonable [2] -

32:23, 44:23

reasoning [1] -

37:22

reasons [3] -

13:25, 31:27,

46:1

receive [4] -

27:14, 53:24,

53:29, 64:9

received [9] -

50:2, 54:3, 54:6,

54:14, 57:21,

59:5, 64:22,

66:19

recent [5] -

35:21, 35:22,

36:3, 37:5, 38:12

recently [1] -

35:7

RECESS [1] -

56:29

recommences

[1] - 67:15

reconstitute [1]

- 69:23

reconvene [2] -

57:3, 66:24

record [6] -

33:12, 58:22,

59:28, 60:16,

63:1, 63:19

records [1] -

64:1

rectified [1] -

40:14

recuse [1] -

15:24

reduce [1] -

38:16

reduction [2] -

36:18, 38:14

refer [3] - 9:12,

36:3, 37:5

reference [1] -

44:11

referred [3] -

23:19, 38:7,

57:27

referring [1] -

48:17

reflect [1] -

60:16

reflection [1] -

33:27

reflects [1] -

56:7

refusal [3] -

6:25, 37:13,

37:15

refuse [5] - 7:1,

10:29, 14:10,

14:17, 64:16

refused [1] -

9:10

regard [10] -

33:18, 33:29,

34:29, 35:13,

35:14, 35:16,

35:21, 36:22,

37:27

regarding [1] -

55:15

regrettable [1] -

43:7

regular [1] - 23:6

regularly [1] -

13:2

regulation [2] -

27:7, 62:13

regulations [2] -

42:12, 62:4

Regulations [1]

- 11:21

rehearing [1] -

68:19

rejected [1] -

38:10

related [2] -

68:22, 68:23

relating [2] -

8:22, 41:24

relation [19] -

5:12, 5:15, 7:5,

7:15, 7:24, 8:5,

8:10, 9:29, 10:1,

10:11, 11:4, 15:2,

15:6, 15:19, 30:7,

41:12, 59:16,

66:29, 67:14

relationship [1]

- 36:10

release [2] -

57:12, 60:7

released [1] -

60:6

releasing [1] -

33:29

relevant [14] -

31:21, 32:19,

32:20, 32:21,

32:25, 32:29,

39:7, 48:28, 50:7,

59:8, 62:11, 64:5,

64:7

religiously [1] -

54:10

reluctantly [2] -

61:9, 62:3

remains [1] -

16:13

remark [3] -

33:16, 55:11,

55:12

remember [1] -

47:17

repeat [1] - 17:6

report [20] -

26:23, 27:27,

28:2, 28:18,

28:20, 28:27,

32:12, 33:17,

33:19, 33:29,

53:25, 53:26,

54:1, 57:22,

57:28, 60:28,

68:3, 68:6

reported [2] -

31:22, 32:14

represented [2]

- 15:27, 16:18

representing [3]

- 45:10, 45:14,

47:4

reproduced [2] -

6:3, 6:7

request [5] -

55:3, 56:3, 57:19,

58:9, 58:11

requested [11] -

39:3, 58:2, 58:3,

58:13, 58:29,

59:1, 63:26, 64:2,

64:11, 64:13,

64:21

required [5] -

7:20, 14:9, 37:17,

43:2, 45:4

requirement [3]

- 40:10, 41:1,

65:6

requirements

[2] - 59:14, 65:3

requires [1] -

7:17

requiring [2] -

5:22, 10:19

research [2] -

8:22, 8:27

reservations [1]

- 62:6

residual [1] - 8:3

residue [1] -

28:18

resource [1] -

12:15

resources [1] -

44:23

respect [6] -

9:12, 19:29, 22:9,

56:2, 59:20,

67:25

respond [1] -

47:13

response [2] -

12:25, 13:1

responses [1] -

40:1

restore [1] - 5:26

restored [1] -

19:27

restricted [1] -

49:5

result [4] -

13:14, 35:27,

42:25, 44:20

resulted [1] -

15:13

results [2] -

28:6, 28:8

resumed [1] -

67:15

resumption [1] -

67:6

retrial [1] - 68:19

return [1] - 9:27

reverse [1] -

30:1

review [1] -

38:12

reviewed [1] -

36:5

revise [1] -

46:23

rights [2] - 59:9,

62:6

risks [1] - 34:17

River [15] - 5:15,

6:12, 7:11, 21:6,

23:16, 23:20,

23:21, 23:23,

24:3, 25:15,

25:21, 27:11,

34:18, 35:10,

68:27

river [14] - 6:14,

9:14, 24:13,

24:16, 24:17,

25:3, 25:5, 25:17,

25:27, 27:8,

33:19, 35:9,

36:18, 48:23

River' [1] - 36:7

rivers [4] - 6:3,

9:25, 10:2, 34:22

Roan [1] - 45:1

robust [1] -

13:29

robustness [1] -

36:23

rock [1] - 44:13

role [1] - 33:5

room [2] - 31:13,

39:21

round [1] - 31:20

RPS [1] - 53:27

rule [2] - 27:7,

60:26

rules [1] - 63:15

running [1] -

24:23

S

SAC [4] - 8:18,

10:4, 21:17, 22:1

SACs [1] - 21:6

safer [1] - 51:16

Safety [1] -

20:18

safety [4] - 29:2,

29:3, 31:7, 31:27

SALMON [4] -

3:8, 3:12, 3:17,

3:28

Salmon [7] -

16:28, 33:9, 37:8,

37:10, 45:10,

45:14, 69:5

salmon [63] -

8:17, 10:12,

12:13, 12:20,

12:21, 17:26,

20:12, 20:13,

20:14, 20:16,

20:17, 20:21,

20:25, 20:26,

20:28, 21:3,

22:12, 22:17,

23:13, 25:24,

25:27, 27:7,

27:10, 27:14,

27:23, 27:24,

27:25, 29:18,


12

29:24, 29:29,

31:23, 31:27,

32:1, 34:1, 35:6,

35:10, 35:24,

35:27, 35:29,

36:11, 36:16,

36:17, 38:1,

38:13, 38:14,

38:15, 38:20,

42:23, 42:29,

44:28, 45:6,

45:29, 46:12,

48:4, 51:17,

54:10, 55:16,

68:26, 68:29

salmon" [1] -

31:1

salmonids [7] -

33:20, 34:17,

34:21, 35:29,

36:20, 38:6,

38:15

sample [2] -

26:24

samples [4] -

26:9, 26:17,

26:29, 27:1

SAUNDERS [3] -

53:24, 53:29,

54:14

Saunders [6] -

33:18, 53:21,

54:12, 54:13,

56:25, 69:9

Save [3] - 16:26,

16:28, 39:2

save [1] - 67:24

saw [1] - 25:5

scarry [1] -

27:18

science [1] -

31:7

scientific [8] -

8:22, 34:9, 34:11,

35:21, 35:22,

38:11, 38:26,

48:3

scope [1] -

33:13

scoping [3] -

40:9, 40:28,

41:14

Scotland [1] -

38:3

se [1] - 7:6

Sea [1] - 69:5

sea [13] - 9:15,

9:26, 22:27, 28:5,

36:1, 36:6, 36:12,

36:16, 36:17,

38:14, 56:9,

57:11, 57:17

seafood [2] -

28:18, 29:29

seal [1] - 8:17

seals [1] - 38:3

SEATROUT [1] -

3:28

second [7] -

11:17, 32:17,

34:29, 36:14,

39:23, 44:7,

67:28

secret [1] -

51:10

secrets [1] -

27:20

section [4] -

41:22, 50:8,

60:22, 61:11

Section [11] -

10:13, 11:21,

50:13, 55:3, 55:9,

55:10, 57:18,

60:21, 60:23,

66:19, 66:20

see [8] - 24:13,

24:17, 25:3, 25:4,

54:24, 56:12,

59:16, 63:6

seeing [2] -

33:27, 51:15

seem [1] - 52:4

selectively [1] -

63:21

seminally [1] -

66:5

senior [1] -

33:28

sense [2] - 52:5,

62:18

sent [9] - 32:2,

53:25, 54:15,

55:13, 58:3, 58:4,

63:11, 64:6, 64:7

separate [3] -

46:10, 52:10,

58:10

serious [3] -

11:4, 12:16, 34:4

seriously [1] -

38:24

serve [2] -

10:19, 20:1

serves [1] -

10:22

set [4] - 32:16,

52:5, 62:19, 63:3

seven [4] - 43:4,

52:22, 55:13,

55:16

severely [2] -

33:13, 56:1

sewage [5] -

12:2, 23:5, 26:6,

26:21, 26:22

sewer [1] - 26:10

shall [3] - 5:26,

7:19, 10:19

shed [1] - 22:18

shell [1] - 29:7

shellfish [1] -

28:9

shop [1] - 54:8

shores [2] -

44:20, 45:24

short [3] - 33:16,

38:28, 63:12

SHORT [1] -

56:29

shorten [2] -

17:23, 19:3

Shot [11] - 6:10,

9:21, 23:13,

23:15, 23:25,

31:16, 42:28,

42:29, 44:9,

68:26, 70:2

show [4] - 26:4,

26:15, 51:11

shown [2] -

27:1, 35:27

shows [3] -

28:19, 35:8,

58:22

side [1] - 26:20

sign [1] - 18:19

significant [5] -

11:23, 12:27,

28:7, 44:18,

67:17

significantly [1]

- 67:23

similar [1] - 7:27

similarly [2] -

7:5, 10:8

simple [1] - 31:3

simply [3] -

15:20, 30:20,

52:13

sincerely [1] -

52:29

single [7] -

18:29, 36:24,

36:27, 37:2,

37:22, 37:27,

38:18

sit [2] - 16:4,

22:14

site [23] - 33:20,

34:2, 34:3, 42:29,

44:1, 44:10,

44:12, 44:14,

44:16, 44:18,

44:22, 45:20,

46:11, 51:11,

51:16, 52:27,

53:2, 53:6, 53:20,

56:8, 57:14,

60:24

sites [1] - 45:1

sitting [1] -

25:23

six [2] - 20:21,

43:4

sixty [1] - 41:4

size [2] - 25:22,

48:4

sizeable [1] -

38:4

skin [1] - 68:25

skinned [1] -

29:9

skip [1] - 21:12

slide [3] - 26:3,

26:15, 39:10

slowly [1] -

61:23

sludge [1] -

32:16

small [3] - 17:25,

25:17, 56:4

smaller [1] -

8:15

smoker [1] -

29:20

smolts [3] -

9:25, 34:29, 35:9

Smyth [1] - 37:7

social [1] - 34:25

sometimes [2] -

22:16

somewhat [1] -

52:4

somewhere [1] -

40:14

soon [1] - 53:1

sorry [36] -

16:29, 17:6,

27:28, 30:3, 31:5,

32:18, 33:5, 33:7,

36:28, 40:12,

42:8, 47:7, 47:8,

48:8, 48:20,

49:26, 49:27,

53:3, 54:5, 54:12,

55:1, 57:26,

57:29, 59:26,

60:23, 61:3,

62:26, 63:6,

64:10, 64:20

sort [3] - 6:29,

31:10, 61:29

sought [2] -

37:10, 41:22

sounded [1] -

40:20

sources [1] -

12:5

south [4] - 13:2,

34:23, 44:18,

44:20

span [1] - 27:16

speaking [1] -

69:4

specialties [1] -

19:18

species [7] -

5:21, 5:27, 5:29,

6:25, 8:12, 8:18,

38:17

specific [3] -

15:26, 45:7, 60:8

specifically [5] -

30:28, 30:29,

42:13, 42:28,

44:14

spending [1] -

20:19

spent [1] - 5:19

spite [1] - 15:12

split [1] - 40:1

splitting [1] -

44:23

spot [2] - 26:17

square [1] -

56:11

stage [9] -

17:20, 23:22,

29:1, 39:5, 56:1,

58:18, 60:20,

64:29, 67:8

stake [2] - 40:27,

41:4

stakeholders [3]

- 41:7, 41:28,

44:24

standard [4] -

8:27, 9:1, 28:5,

52:9

standing [1] -

17:4

stands [1] - 51:5

start [3] - 17:22,

19:23, 40:24

started [2] - 5:5,

52:21

State [1] - 14:15

state [3] - 30:29,

60:6, 69:6

statement [2] -

19:24, 24:11

states [1] - 14:9

States [1] -

30:24

status [7] - 5:27,

6:1, 14:11, 14:13,

14:14, 14:19,

14:21

statutory [2] -

41:8, 43:14

stay [3] - 21:4,

34:24

stayed [1] - 61:9

steam [1] -

12:23

stenograph [1] -

36:8

Stephanie [1] -

29:15

stick [3] - 28:24,

51:18, 51:20

still [4] - 9:4,

9:17, 41:25,

50:20

stimulate [1] -

27:22

stock [1] - 38:2

stocks [3] -

12:16, 35:18,

36:18

stone [1] - 21:19

stonewalling [1]

- 33:28

stop [2] - 24:18,

35:5

straight [1] -

29:12

strange [1] -

47:9

stream [1] -

26:19

strictly [2] - 7:7,

7:8

strongest [1] -

64:8

strongly [1] -

47:28

struck [1] -

12:29

structural [1] -

16:2

structure [1] -

41:15

struggling [1] -

64:25

studies [2] -

42:23, 57:17

Study [1] - 24:9

study [1] - 52:20


13

stuff [3] - 29:11,

53:7, 58:7

sub [1] - 68:4

subject [1] -

17:10

subjects [1] -

19:11

submission [20]

- 9:4, 9:9, 15:5,

15:6, 15:18,

15:19, 16:21,

17:1, 42:6, 42:17,

44:5, 44:7, 44:10,

56:4, 56:10,

59:20, 59:21,

62:17, 66:23,

67:3

submissions [9]

- 8:9, 15:4, 15:17,

57:19, 59:15,

67:5, 67:7, 69:25,

69:27

submitted [22] -

10:27, 10:28,

18:4, 43:2, 43:4,

44:20, 44:21,

52:16, 52:23,

54:25, 55:25,

56:16, 56:17,

56:20, 57:17,

60:1, 60:4, 60:12,

60:13, 60:19,

60:21, 63:4

submitted" [1] -

10:20

subsequent [9] -

8:15, 8:22, 8:27,

41:17, 41:21,

53:25, 56:22

subsequently

[3] - 52:15, 53:17,

62:5

substance [1] -

10:28

substantial [1] -

15:18

substantive [1] -

15:6

succinctly [1] -

30:21

suddenly [1] -

62:28

suffice [1] - 46:4

sufficient [3] -

13:25, 13:27,

14:27

suggest [4] -

37:20, 38:24,

65:12, 68:21

suggested [1] -

44:22

suicide [1] -

29:16

suit [1] - 62:15

suitable [1] -

44:13

supplementary

[1] - 53:26

supplied [2] -

12:12, 44:15

support [2] -

42:28, 65:11

supposed [1] -

30:9

surely [1] -

54:27

surface [4] -

14:12, 14:13,

14:14, 14:19

surrounding [1]

- 21:5

survey [1] -

32:13

survival [1] -

38:16

sustainability

[1] - 12:15

sustainable [1] -

48:5

sustainably [1] -

42:28

SWEETMAN [44]

- 16:29, 17:8,

17:12, 17:15,

40:18, 40:21,

42:4, 42:9, 45:12,

47:7, 47:14,

47:19, 47:22,

47:25, 48:2,

48:24, 49:14,

49:21, 49:26,

50:17, 50:19,

51:20, 51:24,

51:27, 53:3,

53:20, 54:5,

54:17, 55:1,

57:26, 57:29,

60:10, 60:24,

61:3, 61:18,

61:21, 61:23,

61:26, 62:26,

63:6, 63:9, 64:10,

65:11, 66:15

Sweetman [2] -

49:9, 51:19

swimming [1] -

26:13

switch [1] -

39:24

switching [1] -

6:9

system [2] -

19:27, 43:5

T

Tab [1] - 9:12

table [2] - 21:29

Taisce [6] - 5:8,

16:9, 16:21,

49:29, 51:22,

64:23

tanker [1] -

12:26

Tarmac [1] -

21:14

task [3] - 42:25,

50:7, 52:5

tasked [1] - 50:9

TBT [4] - 32:8,

32:10, 32:25

teach [2] - 19:8,

19:10

team [1] - 30:27

technical [7] -

33:17, 42:27,

55:14, 57:28,

66:11, 69:9,

69:10

technique [1] -

52:9

Technology [1] -

29:15

technology [1] -

52:21

TEDDY [1] - 3:9

ten [11] - 15:8,

19:24, 20:4, 30:8,

30:9, 30:10,

30:11, 30:12,

34:10, 56:26

term [2] - 20:8,

25:16

terminal [1] - 6:2

terms [1] - 14:26

terrorists [1] -

29:25

TERRY [1] - 4:8

testimony [1] -

60:27

thalidomide [1]

- 29:22

THE [8] - 3:23,

5:1, 56:29, 57:1,

65:16, 66:1,

70:10

themes [1] -

15:21

themselves [1] -

58:26

THEN [2] -

56:29, 65:16

theoretically [1]

- 31:16

thereby [1] -

68:2

therefore [10] -

10:24, 35:13,

43:21, 43:27,

50:29, 51:12,

60:7, 69:11,

69:15, 69:22

THERESE [1] -

4:2

thin [1] - 29:9

third [1] - 36:22

thirty [1] - 6:7

thoroughly [2] -

61:26, 61:28

Thorstad [1] -

35:24

thousand [1] -

46:26

threaten [1] -

38:16

threatened [1] -

38:17

three [13] -

16:24, 16:25,

23:7, 26:13,

27:14, 27:15,

33:29, 34:15,

46:19, 46:25,

48:13, 48:18

thye [1] - 58:25

tide [4] - 9:22,

9:23, 21:26,

23:16

tight [2] - 42:5,

42:7

timber [1] -

25:23

time" [1] - 20:2

timeframe [1] -

38:28

tip [1] - 26:25

title [1] - 57:8

TO [2] - 70:10

today [4] -

15:20, 32:19,

39:28, 43:18

tonne [2] -

46:19, 46:26

tonnes [4] -

45:21, 45:22,

45:23

Tony [1] - 58:4

TONY [2] - 3:25,

4:5

took [6] - 21:24,

22:28, 26:16,

26:18, 26:24,

29:22

tool [1] - 36:27

top [3] - 21:25,

29:26, 38:1

topic [1] - 40:3

totally [6] -

63:19, 69:15,

69:16, 69:23,

69:24, 70:5

touched [1] -

15:21

tourism [1] -

41:12

Tourism [1] -

41:13

towards [1] -

9:15

town [2] - 12:4,

26:7

toxic [2] - 23:5,

27:24

toxins [1] - 29:8

traced [1] -

29:15

tracked [1] -

57:7

Trafrask [2] -

23:20, 24:10

tragically [1] -

31:15

trained [1] -

61:27

traits [1] - 36:7

transmission [1]

- 35:26

transposed [1] -

42:15

travel [1] - 9:17

treat [1] - 30:25

treated [3] -

22:19, 31:28,

68:4

treating [1] -

22:12

treatment [3] -

22:23, 51:1, 51:2

tried [1] - 56:5

tries [1] - 25:26

Trout [3] - 45:11,

45:15, 69:5

TROUT [1] - 3:8

trout [7] - 27:9,

36:1, 36:6, 36:12,

36:17, 38:14

trust [3] - 19:27,

22:8, 45:6

try [5] - 32:23,

33:5, 39:27, 41:6,

41:27

trying [7] -

23:28, 25:27,

47:1, 48:24,

48:27, 49:2,

50:21

Tuesday [1] -

15:4

Tuffs [1] - 30:26

turn [3] - 26:25,

50:19, 60:10

turned [1] - 50:9

twelve [1] -

20:22

twice [3] - 21:9,

21:11, 61:11

two [15] - 15:2,

24:26, 30:24,

37:12, 41:21,

45:22, 46:10,

46:20, 46:26,

56:15, 62:21,

66:14, 66:15,

68:10

type [3] - 28:22,

29:4, 29:16

types [1] - 31:8

U

UCC [1] - 19:4

Uisce [1] - 24:4

ultimate [2] -

5:16, 68:14

ultimately [1] -

67:24

unable [2] -

16:7, 63:19

unauthorised

[1] - 58:24

unbelievable [1]

- 53:7

unclear [1] -

8:13

under [31] -

5:21, 7:7, 13:5,

25:24, 26:8,

30:25, 35:1, 37:6,

40:10, 41:1,

42:12, 42:13,

42:14, 43:5,

44:14, 50:13,

50:22, 57:18,

60:21, 61:14,

62:13, 62:19,

63:3, 63:15, 64:2,

64:12, 65:7,

66:19, 68:28,


14

69:19

undertook [2] -

40:8, 40:28

unfair [3] - 8:26,

69:17, 70:6

unfortunately

[2] - 29:8, 50:8

United [1] -

30:24

University [1] -

30:27

unless [2] -

14:9, 16:20

unlikely [1] -

38:19

unnecessary [1]

- 10:17

unsewered [1] -

46:22

unsubstantial

[1] - 20:8

untreated [1] -

26:11

unwritten [1] -

27:7

up [29] - 8:16,

21:7, 21:8, 21:29,

23:19, 23:20,

25:20, 25:21,

26:9, 26:17,

27:15, 28:26,

31:21, 32:8,

32:24, 34:24,

36:18, 38:11,

38:26, 39:17,

44:22, 45:3, 47:5,

49:21, 49:22,

53:6, 54:3, 59:2,

63:28

up-to-date [1] -

38:11

updated [2] -

43:12, 57:16

upstream [1] -

9:17

uses [1] - 38:1

utterly [1] - 58:2

V

vaccinated [2] -

27:16, 27:17

vaccinations [1]

- 27:14

vaccine [1] -

27:23

vaccines [2] -

27:18, 27:21

valid [1] - 59:10

validate [1] -

68:13

valthera [1] -

28:10

variation [1] -

36:6

various [3] -

39:27, 40:26,

41:3

venue [2] -

66:10, 66:13

verbal [1] -

43:17

verify [1] - 16:14

version [3] -

57:10, 57:16,

60:5

vessel [3] -

12:22, 13:13

vessels [3] -

13:1, 13:20, 44:9

via [1] - 46:10

vicinity [1] - 8:4

video [1] - 35:7

view [8] - 8:28,

33:12, 34:8,

44:27, 56:13,

67:20, 69:6,

69:10

views [2] -

40:26, 41:3

village [1] - 26:7

Virginia [1] -

21:24

visited [4] -

23:23, 23:25,

24:2, 25:17

vista [1] - 33:22

voice [1] - 47:8

volume [1] -

67:17

voluntary [1] -

36:26

W

walk [1] - 61:9

wants [2] -

28:14, 59:2

warned [1] -

32:5

warning [1] -

20:14

warranted [1] -

6:26

wash [1] - 22:13

washed [2] -

9:22, 22:21

washout [2] -

31:28, 32:3

waste [1] - 12:3

WATCH [1] -

3:17

watching [1] -

21:15

water [31] - 7:14,

8:1, 8:3, 8:11,

11:28, 12:3, 12:4,

14:1, 14:7, 14:12,

14:13, 14:14,

14:19, 14:21,

21:11, 21:13,

21:22, 21:27,

21:28, 21:29,

22:14, 22:16,

22:22, 23:2, 26:9,

26:12, 26:18,

26:26, 32:11,

36:15

ways [1] - 63:28

weak [1] - 23:18

web [8] - 52:27,

53:2, 53:6, 53:20,

57:14, 60:24,

66:21

web-site [7] -

52:27, 53:2, 53:6,

53:20, 57:14,

60:24

website [1] -

41:25

week [3] - 50:3,

61:24, 66:19

weeks [2] - 66:9,

66:13

weight [1] -

45:28

welcome [1] -

37:23

well-being [1] -

69:1

wells [1] - 22:5

West [1] - 21:24

west [1] - 21:24

whichever [1] -

22:11

Whiddy [1] -

31:14

whilst [1] -

44:16

whiskey [1] -

23:2

whole [5] - 13:8,

20:7, 46:1, 48:21,

54:20

wide [2] - 25:8,

41:6

wild [11] - 5:28,

12:28, 35:5,

35:15, 35:29,

36:17, 36:20,

38:5, 38:14,

38:15

wildly [1] - 41:19

willing [1] -

17:16

wind [1] - 12:24

wish [6] - 17:13,

17:19, 32:24,

39:6, 45:19, 50:5

wished [2] -

15:11, 67:3

withdrawing [1]

- 38:25

withheld [1] -

37:17

withhold [1] -

25:8

women [2] -

20:15, 20:20

wonder [6] -

29:12, 34:3, 38:4,

46:27, 66:26,

67:5

world [1] - 23:11

worse [1] -

51:11

wound [1] -

32:24

write [1] - 39:16

written [5] -

19:15, 43:3,

52:22, 62:29,

67:19

wrote [1] - 24:9

Y

year [2] - 33:29,

46:20

years [20] - 6:4,

6:7, 19:24, 20:4,

21:15, 26:13,

30:8, 30:9, 34:10,

37:1, 38:12,

42:22, 43:4,

45:22, 46:26,

52:22, 55:13,

55:16

yesterday [20] -

5:6, 5:7, 5:12,

8:9, 9:13, 9:29,

12:11, 15:20,

19:13, 32:8, 32:9,

32:19, 36:16,

39:28, 40:4,

40:25, 43:18,

44:6, 44:7, 50:26


15

yesterday's [1] -

33:27

yo [1] - 31:3

young [1] -

27:14

yourself [4] -

15:12, 15:24,

19:12, 19:13

yourself" [1] -

22:8

€

€24 [1] - 20:19

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