The Office of the Ombudsman is to extend its inquiry into the Irish Government’s response to an EU Commission sea lice investigation. The Ombudsman’s Office is already inquiring into the handling of questions put to the Department of Agriculture by the EU, on the prevalence of sea lice near salmon farms and their impact on wild salmon. The inquiry followed a complaint by Friends of the Irish Environment that a key report from the State body Inland Fisheries Ireland had been withheld by the Department in its response to the EU…
Irish Times, 28/10/13. Read the full article ‘Inquiry into ‘withholding’ of sea lice report widened‘.
