Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

1:30 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, and his officials to the joint committee and thank them for attending to brief the members on the landing obligation and the mismanagement of fishing fleet capacity.

Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the House or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. I invite the Minister to make an opening statement.