Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council Meeting: Discussion
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The cost of fuel this year has been a real challenge across the economy but particularly challenging for fisheries, given the high percentage of overall costs that fuel makes up for fishing. We did not have the capacity to do anything from a revenue point of view in relation to marine gas oil because the only tax applied to it is VAT, which is fully reclaimable. As a result, our options in that regard were non-existent.