Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Aquaculture Innovation and Development: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Finian O'Sullivan:
I will come in there as well. We are trying to get a meeting with all stakeholders, between the Department, the Marine Institute and the whole lot, who have an input into the whole licensing thing. It is not trying to find someone to blame. It is basically trying to find solutions. We are grateful that we have a Minister of State now dedicated to the marine and we have a dialogue going with him and his Department. We are trying to get to a place where the whole system can be improved. It may be an idea that the committee gets in the same stakeholders and goes through it with them at this committee as well. There might be learning in it for everyone. We are not in a place where we want to lay blame on anyone. We want to find solutions to the situation.