Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:30 pm

Photo of Michael CollinsMichael Collins (Cork South West, Independent)
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I appreciate that. Do the Minister and the Department recommend that fishermen and women on Irish-registered boats be made eligible for a seafarers' income tax allowance similar to that available to merchant seamen and members of the Irish Naval Service? This differing treatment seems discriminatory. Is that the case?