Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 660 of 13 February 2018, the County Clare coastline that could potentially be affected by plans to sell the harvesting rights of kelp disk seaweed to a company (details supplied) in percentage terms. [8771/18]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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As I outlined in the reply to Question No. 660 of 13 February 2018, the role of my Department in relation to seaweed harvesting is to regulate the activity in accordance with the Foreshore Act 1933, as amended. The Act provides that a licence may be granted to remove beach material, including seaweed. Any licence granted would be temporary in nature.  The Foreshore Act does not include any mechanism under which harvesting rights may be sold to any third party.