The Public Consultation in respect of the application referred to by the Deputy was published in the Southern Star on 9 February 2019. It came to the Department’s attention that there was an error in this notice, in that the Notice referred to “an area of the foreshore in Dungarvan Harbour”. As a result of this error, it was necessary to re-run the public consultation period. Valid submissions received during the previous consultation will still be considered as part of the licensing process. New submissions were only accepted from Members of the Public who did not make a submission during the previous public consultation period.
The applicant was notified in accordance with Regulation 8(1) Aquaculture (Licence Application) Regulations, 1998 (SI No 236 of 1998) to publish notice of the application in “The Southern Star”. The public notice appeared in "The Southern Star" on 15th May 2021 and the Public Consultation ran for a period of four weeks from the date of publication of this notice. The Public Consultation has now concluded.
As this licence application is under active consideration as part of a statutory process, it would not be appropriate to comment further on the matter at this time.