Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:30 pm

Ms Sinéad McSherry:

To take the Deputy's first area of comment, there is obviously an obligation on fishers who land fish, particularly those who want it to go into the food chain and on for human consumption. There are all of those requirements, which are a combination of the control regulation but equally food safety issues. That is paperwork that must be done. As far as I am aware - again, this is not something I can speak to directly because the SFPA looks after the control and food safety sides - there is a certain amount digitalisation under way. That is only going to increase across a number of departments. What the Deputy might be referring to is the simplification under CAP. I cannot speak to a simplification under the Common Fisheries Policy but I suppose it is something that could be written to with regard to the ongoing evaluation of the Common Fisheries Policy.

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