Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photo of Thomas PringleThomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Dr. Beamish talked about compensation arrangements for working over 100 days in the fishing industry. Does that include fish factory workers? Killybegs will be severely impacted by the loss of mackerel if it happens. It would be interesting to see how it could benefit from that. Dr. Beamish talked about EU waters and that outside the 12-mile limit, there are not Irish waters but UK waters in the context of what we are talking about here. It works on a UK basis.

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