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

2:40 pm

Photo of Tony McLoughlinTony McLoughlin (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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The witnesses are very welcome and I thank them for their contributions. I come from a small coastal community in County Sligo, where I have two companies. I welcome the representatives from Carraig Fhada Seaweed and Voya, from County Sligo. I have seen what happened in recent years but the major concern is the delay in getting the licence from the Department, which Mr. Melvin mentioned. Mr. O'Sullivan said he wrote to Deputy McGinley and Deputy Deenihan, and somebody mentioned the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government being informed-----