Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
3:30 pm
Michelle Mulherin (Fine Gael)
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I presume if it was overwhelmingly environmentally preferable, or even quite preferable, to have it onshore, Government policy would incentivise onshore as opposed to offshore and it would then become more commercially attractive. We dealt with these types of issues with renewable energy. We have to support renewable energy at the moment. As it goes along and technology develops it becomes more self-financing and self-sustaining.