Mr. John Bhaba Jeaic Ó Conghaile:

We are discussing seaweed, but there would be more than seaweed involved if a company got the licence. People have been harvesting carraigín on the shore for years and trying to make a pound. Some people never cut their seaweed. Instead, they sell it to harvesters. They should have a large say in this matter. It is on their folios. They have maps for their seaweed, for example, between two rocks, a stream, etc. Everyone knows where his or her seaweed is.

If one company gets this, every small farmer or fisherman who does this all his life will not have the right to cut the duileasg or get the carraigín to make a few pounds. I would love to see it left the way it was, and the people that cut the seaweed able to look after the seaweed.