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The Galway Bay Against Salmon Cages has vowed to keep putting the pressure on Government to halt any plans for a Galway Bay Salmon Fish Farm with campaign members to descend on the constituency office of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Castlebar this Saturday.

The Galway Bay Against Salmon Cages has vowed to keep putting the pressure on Government to halt any plans for a Galway Bay Salmon Fish Farm with campaign members to descend on the constituency office of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Castlebar this Saturday.

More than 1,000 farmers in Galway, who applied to the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, have not received any payment, a situation a local TD has called “disgraceful”.

The proposed fish farm for Galway Bay has met with the “reservations” of Galway county councillors, who are demanding that the Government take note of their concerns.

Unless vital questions over sea lice, contamination of fish stocks, and issues of employment are addressed openly and publicly, the public cannot have any confidence in decisions made about the controversial fish farm for Galway Bay.

The Taoiseach must “urgently raise” the latest developments in the horsemeat controversy at EU level, according to Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesperson Éamon Ó Cuív.

Only an independent investigation into the horse meat controversy will “reassure customers” and “restore confidence” in Irish meat processing nationally and internationally.

The scandal of upward-only rent reviews needs to be brought to an end and the Government must introduce legislation that takes account of these changed economic times.

The public needs reassurance that traces of horse DNA found in burgers from two meat processing plants is not a widespread practice in the industry.

The deep sea salmon farm, proposed to be located off Inis Óirr, could devastate wild salmon and sea trout numbers and natural fish habitats.