Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Aquaculture Licensing: Discussion

4:00 pm

Dr. Cecil Beamish:

Yes, I hope not. That is certainly not the intention. The opening statement contains a reference to the licences that have been determined through each of the years from 2012 to 2016. They will fall due chronologically within the ten years so it does not mean they will all fall due within the one year, plus we will not be back in the same situation in which we found ourselves in 2007, with a negative European court judgment and having to build the entire infrastructure from scratch, as was required. The system is in place. The licences will roll in on that basis, plus whatever new licences come in at that time. It should not happen that we will face a full backlog, as was the case in 2011. Everything had built up so that by 2011 and 2012 the entire industry, which in effect, was in Natura areas needed to be licensed and that is what we have been working through.

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