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:

It is difficult to say. These are the Commission's guidelines so, like the committee, we are trying to interpret them. Potentially that is something at which it is aiming. There are also existing provisions in the EMMF for aquaculture stock insurance and so on - measures which are specifically designed to deal with disease outbreaks, compensation for bio-toxin outbreaks and so on. There are, therefore, a number of potential tools in the EMMF. It is probably unlikely, for that reason, that we would ever need to resort to the guidelines and a state aid notification for that kind of event.

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