Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fishing Industry Losses Due to Recent Storms: Discussion

3:20 pm

Mr. Seán O'Donoghue:

The Parliament and the fisheries Council of Ministers have agreed on the text but it has not been published in theOfficial Journal of the European Union. This is unlikely to be done for another two or three months. There will not be any change in the text and the provision for emergency aid specifically refers to adverse climatic events. We can justify this on the basis of adverse climatic events.