Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
3:30 pm
Dr. Cecil Beamish:
I think I responded to Deputy Kenny on the six-month timeline. The recommendation is that a six-month limit should set. If we look at page 66 and onwards in the report, it sets to the process that is pursued at the moment to grant a licence. Each one of the steps timelined in the flow charts is what is legally advised and required. That does not reduce the six months. I am not saying six months is not the right aspiration. However, it does not reduce the six months. We are looking at whether there is any way to be legally compliant and get through the process in that timeline. The report itself does not explain how that could happen. That is the issue being looked at.
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