Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 607 of 15 November 2022, which of the listed non-expiry licence are currently operational; the dates on which the competent authority made its statutory environmental determinations under the provisions of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive in relation to the listed non-expiry fish culture licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60037/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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As outlined in a previous response to the Deputy in Parliamentary Question No. 607 of 15 November 2022, my Department's records indicate that there are currently nine extant non-expiry Fish Culture Licences, which were granted under Section 15 of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959. Section 15 was repealed by the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act and Fish Culture Licences are no longer issued.

These licences were granted in accordance with the legislation in place at the time, which was prior to the current EIA Directive, and licence holders are permitted to continue operating under Section 75 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 under the terms of their original licences.