Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries

Aquaculture and Tourism: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

4:50 pm

Dr. Cecil Beamish:

All I can say is that in the context of the specific Galway Bay application we are going through a statutory process. All the submissions that came out of both the statutory consultation and the public consultation are being examined. That process will follow the legal prescribed process set out for it. That process will take into account all matters arising - environmental and otherwise - that have been raised. However, I do not believe it is possible to go into it in any more detail because one would end up making comments about specific applications.