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:

In many other parts of the State advertisements are placed in national newspapers on the basis that national newspapers are national. Whether they are heavily read in a particular area is not tested, I do not think, in that situation.

We have tried to use provincial or local newspapers but there are very many such newspapers. There is a legal requirement to publish in newspapers that circulate in the vicinity of the location.