Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

State Aid to Fishery and Aquaculture Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:50 pm

Mr. Damien Clarke:

I would not categorise it as that. It is there for when people suffer very significant losses. Our thinking is that we are much more likely to use the mutual fund approach, which is set out in the EMMF regulation. The Minister is already on record as being minded to make allowance for that in the new programme. It is a much more flexible instrument that could potentially deal with the kinds of storms we saw earlier this year.

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