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 thought I had gone towards answering the first question on a dynamic framework. The legislation requires the Minister and the Department to consider the applications that it receives on their merits and make a decision. That is what the person applies for. If a person has a licence but wants it changed then the legislation permits him or her to apply to do so. If the change is a material change then there is requirement to go through public and statutory consultation, etc., because it is on public property and other people have an interest. That is how the dynamism exists.

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