Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fishing Industry: Discussion

Photo of Thomas PringleThomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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Could I ask just one further question? I am sorry. I forgot to ask it during my previous contribution. Dr. Steele said earlier in the context of white fishing that she expects that within two months a new procedure will be in place, which is very optimistic. It will be a year or a year and half, probably, before it happens. How soon will the interim measures the SFPA is putting in place be in place? That is vitally important. They should be in place, I believe, within the next month or so to run until the period during which this will be accepted. When will they be in place?