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:
Yes, if they can. With some of them it is challenging to see how they can be implemented with the range of legal obligations imposed on the Minister and the Department. These are not optional and cannot be removed easily. They are European requirements etc. There are some immovable objects that a recommendation simply will not get past. If there are other ways of doing it or faster ways of doing it, it might be possible. Much of what we are discussing is a historical problem. We could have been having this conversation in 2007 or 2008 when we were really in trouble with this project with the negative judgment and no architecture. We have almost addressed a problem that is getting closer to resolution. We are a good way down the road of resolution of many of the problems, although not all of them. There will always be new problems.
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