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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is a problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes, but we have just brought to the Minister's attention an industry that has been squeezed for the best part of two decades. It has not achieved its potential.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let us discuss the European Court of Justice, ECJ, judgment given that the Minister mentioned it. The judgment was in 2007, which is 11 years ago. That arose from the habitats directive not being transposed, which was 24 years ago. Governments did not do it. It had nothing to do with the industry. That was 11 years ago. The other point is that there are applications for areas where SACs...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will finish with this point. This independent report has been published and I commend the Minister on doing that. Apparently, it is the third report examining changes in the system. However, this one is critical. It has 30 recommendations. As I have not heard the Minister or the officials say they are not going to implement those recommendations, I assume all 30 will be implemented....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is one tenth of the production of Scotland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is not 12 or 13 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The industry estimates that the economic loss in the context of Food Harvest 2020, with multipliers and so on included, is €1.3 billion. It is devastating. There have been a number of references to the Minister and the Department engaging with stakeholders. Is the Minister willing to meet industry representatives, including the IFA, for example, to facilitate that? It is important...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On the basis of today's concerns, is the Minister willing to meet the industry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister is a Deputy representing a rural coastal community.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: If the IFA, which is a respected representative body-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am talking about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----the aquaculture sector.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will not name any individual company, but the Minister would be willing to meet a representative group of companies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: That is helpful. My next point concerns the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board. Apparently, it is postponing a number of determinations to 2019. Obviously, if there is a high volume of refusals - I think the Minister indicated that the number exceeds 140 - one would imagine that quite a number of appeals are going through. I would like it if there were an independent body dealing with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister will appreciate, though, that if the board is already postponing decisions to 2019, and he can be sure there will be-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is an important point because, obviously, we are concerned about the loss of economic growth in the coastal communities along the west coast. An efficient decision-making and appeals process is in everyone's interest. It is not just in the industry's interest; it is in that of those who may be concerned. It is best for everyone - all interested parties - if this process can be as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister has referred to two thirds of the industry, but we understand salmon accounts for three quarters of the value of the industry. Let us go with the Minister's figures of €65 million-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What the officials------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This is about trying to get the overall aquaculture industry ready. Obviously, people have a right to object and we need a fair and efficient decision-making process. Sometimes it will be successful and sometimes it will not be, but decisions should be made sharply and efficiently. Let me repeat that in the call he is making the Minister is failing to turn around the larger share. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licensing Review Process: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Oct 2018)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are 30 recommendations.