Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion

Mr. John Menarry:

The Deputy touched on Brexit and said it will cause more issues for the inshore sector. There were 16 support schemes for the seafood sector from the BAR funding, totalling more than €420 million. Of that €420 million, the inshore sector got zero, nothing. We are being affected by it but we did not get support. There was almost €1 billion of funding for supports for the inshore sector, the largest sector in the fishing industry, and we got zero supports from the BAR funding.