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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This issue of overfishing has continued for a number of years. It is not new. The IFPO's submission refers to a five-year process. If one puts in all of the different cutbacks, we are facing losses of €200 million next year. If no firm action is taken, conservative estimates predict that 2,000 jobs will be lost and there will be devastation in coastal and fishing communities. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a lot of talk about countries here but my issue is that major corporations are involved in industrial scale fishing and reckless practices that ignore science and that may well destroy a precious, shared resource that spawns off the Irish coast and works its way up to the north Atlantic. This is clearly reckless and clearly in defiance of the science, and there are no repercussions....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They are recklessly overfishing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am conscious we do not have a large number of members here yet, so I will ask one final question, if I may. There has been a failure to take any action in the last five years. Every single year that the fish producers have come before this committee to discuss the sustainability impact assessment, the issue of mackerel overfishing has been flagged. It has certainly been flagged for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: An eight-point plan has been brought forward. I commend the Seafood Ireland Alliance, our fishing organisations and the producer organisations on working together as one voice. They have been doing that for a number of years in uniting together and speaking directly to the European Commission. There is an eight-point plan. In his submission Mr. Lynch said that we are going to have to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It absolutely cannot be business as usual. As the Minister of State will know, Sinn Féin has welcomed the appointment of a dedicated Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries who is entirely focused on this sector. We have disastrous recommendations on mackerel, blue whiting and boarfish. Our mackerel industry is crucial. We have just heard evidence from the processor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Over the past five years, more than 1 million tonnes of mackerel have been caught above the level set in scientific advice and in defiance of scientific advice. It is astonishing that this has been allowed to happen. I have met with fishing interests over recent years and they have provided, to the best of their ability with the limited resources they have, research that demonstrates that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: For anybody listening in, it would appear that Iceland controls its fishing fleet, the government of the Faroe Islands controls its fishing fleet and countries like these have nationalised fishing fleets. This is private enterprise. All the EU has done is tut-tut for the past three or four years about the behaviour. We hear about countries but these are corporations based in the EU that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have a very quick question on real-time closures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apparently, there is a device called real-time closures that can be deployed on the basis of ICES scientific advice. I had to check it out, but I think Denmark deployed it in 2025. I have just landed this on the Minister of State. If he does not have the answer-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----maybe some of his officials or the Marine Institute representatives might know something about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be fair, I had to research it myself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Could the Minister of State come back to me on real-time closure? Is it a device that can be used-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Real-time closure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Apparently, it was deployed by Denmark and can be used, on the basis of ICES advice, to close a fishery on a temporary basis. Would the Marine Institute representatives be able to comment on it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In Dr. Kelly's opinion, it is a device that can be used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No problem.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the situation in a school (details supplied); and if she will commit to funding such repairs either via the ETB or directly from her Department in line with her predecessor's commitment to fully support the current school campus while plans for a new school build are progressing. [54377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time frame for the construction of the new three school campus in a location (details supplied); and if she is satisfied that the intended construction dates will be met. [54378/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the size of the available land on a site for the new three school campus in a location (details supplied) is likely to be reduced in size in order to facilitate required roads infrastructure; and if adjacent lands, identified by the school, can be purchased in order to provide adequate school space, including playing...