Mr. Mícheál Quinn:

As a processing company, it is our view that if the licence was to be granted to one commercial identity, it would completely eliminate our business. We would be unable to buy seaweed from a harvester and the harvester would be unable to sell to us. We would be out of business and the operation harvesting seaweed would have only one company to supply and it would be told exactly what it would be paid. There would be total control to which I am altogether against, but I have no problem with a licence being issued to a co-operative, a group of people or perhaps an individual. I have no problem with the business being policed by an independent body. However, it is wrong that a harvester or company cannot have fair play and engage in fair trade. We are all fighting for fair play for everyone.