Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Licensing and Harvesting of Seaweed in Ireland: Discussion

2:30 pm

Mr. Damien Melvin:

I will repeat what the other gentlemen have said. There are traditional rights, whether legal or illegal, and they must be taken into account. I do not believe any company or body can have exclusive rights to any part of the shoreline. People have harvested for years, generations and centuries and if that right is taken away from them, it will not be good for anyone.