610. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the National Parks and Wildlife Service, as the statutory competent authority responsible for the favourable conservation status of Irish wild birds, can publically endorse the assertion and international consumer marketing by An Bord Bia to the effect that current agricultural policies, methods and food production are sustainable and natural, in terms of the current restricted range and falling productivity of threatened Irish farmland birds, such as the red grouse, hen harrier and curlew; if the service has ever suggested any form of satisfaction with the conservation status of these three species, dependent on farming activity, while communicating with the European Commission's directorate responsible for implementing the European birds directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27634/15]

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610. Deputy Finian McGrath asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the National Parks and Wildlife Service, as the statutory competent authority responsible for the favourable conservation status of Irish wild birds, can publically endorse the assertion and international consumer marketing by An Bord Bia to the effect that current agricultural policies, methods and food production are sustainable and natural, in terms of the current restricted range and falling productivity of threatened Irish farmland birds, such as the red grouse, hen harrier and curlew; if the service has ever suggested any form of satisfaction with the conservation status of these three species, dependent on farming activity, while communicating with the European Commission's directorate responsible for implementing the European birds directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27634/15]

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