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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Will it be possible to deal with the two separately?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister and his officials for engaging with us on this issue. The current fleet sub-segmentation policy is a ministerial policy and, as such, I assume the Minister can decide to review it on the basis of evidence he has heard and based on the comprehensive business case that was submitted by the vessel owners who are seeking a policy shift. He can initiate a policy review if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: With regard to the High Court order in the 2011 case, and Deputy Ó Cuív mentioned this, in order to satisfy that order the Minister had to break his policy, which he is precluded from doing under law.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Is this a judgment from the High Court or a court order?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The court did not actually order this to be done but suggested it should be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: It was the only way the Department could deal with it which is fair enough. As the Minister stated, 18 vessels have requested this review of the subsegmentation. As I understand it, there are 31 or 33 vessels in the polyvalent pelagic sector, which means a majority of vessels in the sector affected is requesting this. That surely should carry some weight within the decision-making...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: The licensing regime is a total-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: There is any amount of spare tonnage in the RSW fleet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I wish to tease out the following couple of points with the Minister. I note that the producer organisations, POs, are not in favour of the proposals that have been agreed at the North Western Waters Regional Advisory Council. Why were the reference years 2013-2014 decided on in regard to how the discarding would operate in the future? I know the POs had a proposal that they would be given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Is it going to go down to that level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Let us take a hypothetical example of a vessel owner who has all the technical gear, the conservation escape hatches, has a biannual quota allowance and carries out all the de minimisrules to the letter of the law but must land fish because of being over quota, will he or she be prosecuted? That should not happen. We must not forget that fishermen go out week after week and catch quota that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: It is interesting that none of the producer organisations has stated that it is in favour of this proposal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I have a final question on enforcement, something that will become an issue, particularly when other countries are involved. In recent days, stories have emerged of a Danish pelagic trawler to which the SFPA issued penalty points, but the Danish authorities refused to apply those points to the trawler's licence. How will enforcement, including of landing obligations, be handled in such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (30 Jun 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Will the Minister bring it to the European Commission?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry Development (1 Jul 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that Ireland has never made a request in support of a recreational bluefin tuna fishery either to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas or to the European Union Commission; the reason the Government has not made such a case to the European Union for a catch and release recreational...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Discards (1 Jul 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 46. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on European Union Commission proposals to implement the ban on discarding white fish catches from January 2016; the position he plans to take on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26051/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Migration Data (1 Jul 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify, of the 700 migrants her Department claims are coming to Ireland in a recent spike in immigration numbers, the number who are seeking asylum, and of those seeking asylum, their nationalities; the number of persons who were refused permission to enter the country and turned away; the reason this would be putting pressure on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (1 Jul 2015)

Thomas Pringle: 157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of an increase in communications from the Reception and Integration Agency of her Department and management of direct provision centres to persons who have obtained permission to stay here informing them that they must move out of such centres within a short period, regardless of the availability of housing; the supports put in...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Thomas Pringle: I want to speak on amendment No. 21 and the Minister's proposals to force people to register, regardless of whether they are the occupier. Other speakers have outlined the difficulty this creates for tenants who are obliged to register with Irish Water within 20 days of this legislation being passed and the question of whether the landlord has to register as well. It also affects individual...