John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a foreshore licence for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46213/18]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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My Department wrote to the person concerned on 24 August 2018 last clarifying the legal standing on appurtenant and profit-à-prendre rights to harvest wild seaweed and the interaction of these rights with the Foreshore Act and specifically applications to harvest wild seaweed.

My Department outlined that in order to consider an application to harvest wild seaweed, it is now necessary to incorporate into the process a mechanism whereby applicants will need to undertake a search of the Land Registry folios in respect of the area of the foreshore they want to harvest in. They will need to identify the folios of all land bordering that part of the foreshore and, with the exception of urban land and housing estates, within one mile of the foreshore in question. It will be necessary to examine all such folios to ascertain if they contain any entries showing a right to take seaweed from that part of the foreshore. 

To date there is no record of a reply from the person concerned.