Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
3:30 pm
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
That is helpful.
My next point concerns the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board. Apparently, it is postponing a number of determinations to 2019. Obviously, if there is a high volume of refusals - I think the Minister indicated that the number exceeds 140 - one would imagine that quite a number of appeals are going through. I would like it if there were an independent body dealing with licensing and a body dealing with regulations and ensuring that the law is implemented. In the absence of this, would the Minister be willing to provide additional resources to the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board in order that we can deal with all this?
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