Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 26 September 2017, his views on whether the number of licence approvals by his Department relative to licence refusals demonstrates further the in-built prodevelopment bias in the licensing regime at the expense of environmental concerns. [44927/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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All applications for aquaculture licences are considered by my Department in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act and (in the case of marine aquaculture) the 1933 Foreshore Act. The assessment process takes full account of all National and EU legislative requirements and reflects the full scientific, environmental, legal, public policy and engineering aspects of each application.