Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara

2:00 am

Photo of Pádraig Mac LochlainnPádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

My understanding of the BAR fund is that the processing industry felt it would require approximately €12 million from the fund and in correspondence from the Minister to people in the sector it says that Bord Iascaigh Mhara felt €7 million would be sufficient. There is a view that this was not handled well in the Brexit transition scheme. I would like to get Ms Bocquel's sense of this. I know Bord Iascaigh Mhara has been in dialogue on this. What is the perspective on that? Was €7 million sufficient? Would €12 million have been sufficient? What is her view on that?

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