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
Ms Caroline Bocquel:
I thank the Deputy very much. To answer a couple of his questions, a stakeholder group has been established for the national strategic plan for sustainable aquaculture development, NSPSA, and I believe that will meet before the end of the year. Certainly, BIM has been invited to participate in that group. BIM does have responsibility for the majority of the actions under that plan, and we have been progressing at pace with many of those actions in any event. That group will meet before the end of the year, and I would expect there will be a report issuing in due course.
In relation to the human capacity development plan, we did commission a report on this. We have reviewed it. It is very good. We are now looking at a draft implementation plan of that. We have some additional recommendations. Once we have done that, we will publish the report with an implementation plan. Effectively, it is looking at a range of measures on how we can attract more people into the sector, so there is quite a detailed report to be published by the end of the year on that.