Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara
2:00 am
Ms Caroline Bocquel:
That is one area. We are doing a huge amount across our programmes to try to ensure those processors can access the markets they want to. We have a very significant business intelligence service where we are providing information to our clients on pricing. We are specifically looking at how they are buying fish, ensuring they are doing so in the right way and using every tool available to them. For example, in the business of seafood you will see there was a 25% increase in the value of imports to the country but only a 1% increase in the cost of those imports. Therefore, that is extremely efficient buying on the part of those processors. This is an area we are very focused on.