Michelle Mulherin (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Is the Department actively looking at the possibility of onshore and the pros and cons of doing it? We will always find people who have sometimes extreme environmental concerns who see everything going pear-shaped very quickly but it has been explained to me and I have seen footage of very problematic offshore fish farms in Canada where it seems to have caused environmental disaster. I understand they have to be placed in a certain place where there is current so it can disperse the excrement or whatever is coming from the salmon but it raises legitimate concerns that we get the right balance here. I want to know, because it is raised so often, if we are looking at the possibility of onshore fish farms.