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:

Having almost built a system to completion, we do not really want to revise it again. The Deputy mentioned the issue of public involvement. I have just looked at the presentation. A lot of it is concerned with the Natura 2000 scheme and the environmental dimensions because that is what much of the licensing report is about. That was the core issue. However, I did mention that the legislation provided for periods of public consultation and I talked at some length about the public participation directive. Of course, the public are stakeholders. It is a public good and public property.

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