Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Impact of UK Referendum on Membership of the European Union on Irish Agrifood and Fisheries Sectors: Discussion
4:00 pm
Mr. Aidan Cotter:
There is a €200 million fund for a range of areas. We submitted six applications to the EU for the three-year fund and were successful in one. It is highly competitive because we are competing with 27 - possibly 26 soon - other member states. It is challenging. We could explore whether there is a fund that would accommodate seaweed.