Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Independent Mink Farms: Discussion

Mr. Michael Curran:

I thank the Deputy. We have been issued a licence to 2024 by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. It came as a shock to us when they brought in the prohibition. The programme for Government makes provision for a phasing out. We are lucky that it is a phasing out and that we will be compensated, maybe at the end of 2024. Now, however, the prohibition is in front of us.