Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fishing Industry: Discussion

Ms Olive Loughnane:

I thank Deputy Browne for his question. From the outset, it is important for me to state the organisation fully accepts the recommendations made in the report. My role in the organisation is to work with the very hard-working and committed people who are in the organisation and accept the need for change to deliver on those 46 recommendations.

In terms of those pieces, what we have is a number of different pillars around which those recommendations are based. We are working through those recommendations. As we speak, a total of 26 recommendations are under way, seven of which have been delivered and 15 of which have yet to commence. My role is to work with colleagues across the organisation, not just to implement those recommendations but to deliver on the underlying objectives of those recommendations.