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. We are working through all of these and trying to establish a hierarchy. The report recognises that the primary legislation will take too long in terms of dealing with the backlog issue. The first priority is to clear the backlog, then there will need to be new legislation and we will start consideration of the new legislation. There are only three pages of recommendations and I tried to categorise them in my presentation. It is not an inordinately long list of recommendations and some of them are easier to implement than others.

Deputy Martin Kenny asked a reasonable question about the six-month time limit.

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