1083 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the situation on Dursey Island, County Cork, where farmers are being prevented from transporting their cattle to and from the island on cable cars, a practice they used for 40 years, for what the county council describes as health and safety reasons and if, in his view, transporting animals on small boats and swimming them ashore is a safer way of transporting them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17996/12]

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1083 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the situation on Dursey Island, County Cork, where farmers are being prevented from transporting their cattle to and from the island on cable cars, a practice they used for 40 years, for what the county council describes as health and safety reasons and if, in his view, transporting animals on small boats and swimming them ashore is a safer way of transporting them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17996/12]

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