Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Aquaculture Industry: Discussion

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There were 800 sites designated, including marine, or what we would call coastal areas, on 7 December 2004 by the International Geographical Congress. They were adopted by Europe but for the individual site analysis, which Ms McManus has mentioned, the statutory instrument has only been applied to a lot of sites inland because I have been watching them fairly closely for different reasons. That has only happened on a large scale in the past 15 to 18 months even though I thought that under the European legislation they were to be done in six years.

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