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Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I have listened to people telling me there is no criminality and everything is hunky dory in the fishing industry——

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The official line from Deputy Perry is that Fine Gael would repeal this Bill in its entirety. Deputy Jim O'Keeffe now talks about minor technical offences and that there would be no problem with an administrative penalty system. I suggest Fine Gael makes up its mind on what it will do and tell the people whether it will repeal this Bill and allow the seas around Ireland to be raped. Fine Gael...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I suggest the Deputy should read his statement. He stated he would withdraw this Bill and repeal this Bill in its entirety. He did not even mention administrative sanctions because he had not heard of them at the time he made that statement.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy should read his statement.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: Despite all the publicity about the small number of fishermen who continue to flout fisheries laws and the Common Fisheries Policy, there are still people who apparently have not got the message that things must change. The previous Minister of State at my Department undertook good work last year. He went to the European Council to secure a deal with the Commission——

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: ——on weighing fish on the basis that we would be putting pelagic fish controllers into various processors at Killybegs to monitor the arrival of fish at those processors. That was to ensure that all the trucks would carry the appropriate documentation identifying the source of fish being transported. They have a duty to confirm and monitor the identity and species of fish being processed...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I cannot accept a situation where large fish factories, which the State is required to monitor, refuse to grant access to control personnel which the State wishes to assign to meet national and EU obligations. I ask those fish processors to change their position rapidly if they want to convince people that there is nothing untoward going on.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: Deputy O'Donovan expressed concern over new discarding methods by the Dutch fleet. The Department is aware of that and has been in contact with the Naval Service and the Air Corps in that regard.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: As regards the Dutch pelagic factory vessel fleet, or even our own factory fleet, we must be clear that discarding small fish is wrong, no matter who is doing it.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: We should not delude ourselves that it is not happening; we realise it is. We are in contact with the Naval Service and the Air Corps to try to monitor the situation and take action on it. Deputy Broughan spoke again at length to make a strong case for the administrative system. He talked a lot about some administrative systems and fines we have here. He also spoke about financial services...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy is in denial over the Scottish landings. He said there is no record of such landings, although I tell him that there is. It is fairly serious for the fishing industry here and for this country. I wish to deal with the point about criminalising people and criminalising the fishing industry. As I said on Committee Stage, I never made a statement to the effect that everybody in the...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: Passing a law in this House does not criminalise anybody. It is only when one breaks the law that one becomes a criminal. I do not accept Deputy Ferris's contention that merely by passing a law we are making criminals of people. If that were the case, we would all be criminals — murderers, robbers and rapists — because we have passed laws on all those matters. I do not accept that, just...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: We have an obligation and a duty reiterated in sections 13 and 14 to look after our own waters, fleets and quotas.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: There was talk of me changing my position. The original Fine Gael position on this Bill was that it would repeal the Bill in its entirety. As matters progressed and became a little hotter, Fine Gael suddenly found itself in a position where it seemed the only thing it ever sought at any stage was administrative penalties for minor technical offences. We now see a great change from where...

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: Fine Gael is in denial.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: For a party which claims to be the party of law and order, it has shamed all its predecessors in this regard.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I have the Deputy's statement. If he wants me to read it into the record of the House, I will. However, I will save him the blushes as well as the time.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: Revoking this Bill, to which Deputy Perry has committed his party, will mean no law for anyone in this country and no protection for the honest decent fishermen whom he purports to defend and look after.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy keeps parroting on about administrative offences. I do not think he even knew the meaning of the words when he started out on this Bill.

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2005: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (22 Feb 2006)

Noel Dempsey: I will put my record against that of the Deputy any time.