Clíona Mhic

But it seems to be an event that happened on both years and very exceptionally the same week in both years.

Absolutely.

We're kind of collectively holding our breaths for the next

eight weeks or so, you know, hopefully everything will be OK.

But also, we don't want to be wondering in 2027, 2028, are we going to have a repeat of this?

But we'll just concentrate on getting through this year first.

We don't get anything at all.

And, you know, absolutely, beef farmers should be compensated if they have to destroy cattle.

But there's no framework for this would be classed as a natural disaster, though in my mind it's certainly not natural.

As well as the oysters dying at the same time, we had seaweed dying, we had crabs dying.

So there was, in my opinion, definitely an event there.

that happened in the Bay, but there's no mechanism there to assist people in our situation, whether it's oysters or mussels or anything else.

And on top of that, I, you know, it came up at the joint or off this committee, there's a somewhat fragmented approach when an ecological disaster happens.

Thinking back, for example, to the Blackwater last year,

You know, all the state agencies do their jobs, but maybe we need a coordinating body that will look at the entire event instead of, you know, one agency testing for disease and somebody else testing for something else.

There's no overall coordinating body.

And I think that would be really, really important.