Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 February 2023
882. Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department in the past five calendar years has never issued an aquaculture licence for the operation of trout hatchery in County Galway when the hatchery is listed as an aquaculture establishment on the Marine Institute’s Fin Fish FHA Register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6517/23]
View answerThe Marine Institute are the Competent Authority for Fish Health in Ireland and the maintenance of the Register of Aquaculture Establishments to which the Deputy refers.
The site in question is one of the oldest in the country and was established in 1851. The Deputy's question regarding the licencing of the site is more appropriately directed to Inland Fisheries Ireland whose principal function is to protect, manage and conserve Ireland's inland fisheries.
