Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I would be a brave man if I said I knew exactly what the regulatory regime will be in 25 or 30 years. What I can say is that there is an evolution in environmental policy, that the courts have made a determination as to what is required, that we are doing what is required in the context of European Union and national law and that we are providing a framework of incentives which is very generous to incentivise people to do this. I think it is-----