607. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware that permits granted by her Department to landowners under section 42 of the Wildlife Acts for the culling of deer outside the open hunting season due to crop damage and excessive deer numbers have declined nationally by 27% in the past two years, including for counties Galway, by 60%, Tipperary, by 44%, Wicklow, by 7%, and Waterford, by 38%, where claims of excessive deer numbers have been made recently, despite her Department never undertaking a census of deer numbers; if she agrees that the decline in these permits would suggest fewer landowners have an issue with deer damage and excessive deer numbers; that County Wicklow represents over one third of the annual national deer cull but, despite claims of excessive deer numbers, less than 5% of the farming population have requested permits under section 42 of the Wildlife Acts to control excessive deer numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27394/15]

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607. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware that permits granted by her Department to landowners under section 42 of the Wildlife Acts for the culling of deer outside the open hunting season due to crop damage and excessive deer numbers have declined nationally by 27% in the past two years, including for counties Galway, by 60%, Tipperary, by 44%, Wicklow, by 7%, and Waterford, by 38%, where claims of excessive deer numbers have been made recently, despite her Department never undertaking a census of deer numbers; if she agrees that the decline in these permits would suggest fewer landowners have an issue with deer damage and excessive deer numbers; that County Wicklow represents over one third of the annual national deer cull but, despite claims of excessive deer numbers, less than 5% of the farming population have requested permits under section 42 of the Wildlife Acts to control excessive deer numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27394/15]

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1. 7 July 2015

   Deer Hunting

   607. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware that permits granted by her Department to landowners under section 42 of the Wildlife Acts for the culling of deer outside the open hunting season due to crop damage and excessive deer numbers have declined nationally by 27% in the past two years, including for counties Galway, by 60%, Tipperary, by 44%, Wicklow, by 7%, and Waterford, by 38%, where claims of excessive deer numbers have been made recently, despite her Department never undertaking a census of deer numbers; if she agrees that the decline in these permits would suggest fewer landowners have an issue with deer damage and excessive deer numbers; that County Wicklow represents over one third of the annual national deer cull but, despite claims of excessive deer numbers, less than 5% of the farming population have requested permits under section 42 of the Wildlife Acts to control excessive deer numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27394/15]

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