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

Mr. Damien Melvin:

Nobody. It is hard to believe that somebody in Wexford can make a decision on how I am to harvest seaweed in Sligo. It has got to the stage at which they do not even answer our e-mails.

We are in limbo. We do not know if at some stage in the future when we are harvesting seaweed we will be tapped on the shoulder and told we can no longer do so.