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

Dr. Cecil Beamish:

The recommendation says that in preparing new legislation, consideration be given to assigning aquaculture licensing functions to an independent body, either a new body set up for the purpose or one of the existing environmental regulatory bodies. All it is saying is that consideration be given to it.