Dáil debates

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

1:05 pm

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has established a task force on the Irish fishing industry and creating a sustainable future for it. Resources will be allocated to ensure that and to continue to fight for and ensure balance in quota distribution. I wrote to the President of the Commission in the aftermath of the deal pointing out the disproportionality of the deal on fisheries with the United Kingdom and its implications for the Irish fishing industry and the need to quickly restore balance to the member states' fishery quota shares. The Minister continues to pursue the matter actively and raised it again at the EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting on 25 January. The cost of the final quota transfer by Ireland will be approximately €43 million, which is about a 15% loss of the overall value. That is serious. This is obviously something to which the Government will respond as strongly as we possibly can as regards the allocation.

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