Results 2,561-2,580 of 11,242 for speaker:Noel Dempsey

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

Noel Dempsey: On Deputy McGinley's comment, I realise that last year, especially the latter part of the year, was not great for Killybegs. Quite an amount of fish was landed for processing in Scotland and other places, but this spring is a very busy season for pelagic fish landings into Killybegs. So far about 11,000 tonnes of pelagic fish are legally recorded as having been landed into Ireland for...

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

Noel Dempsey: It is very important that we conserve the fish stocks so that livelihoods are maintained. It is important not just for the sake of the fish and the environmental reasons in which Deputy Eamon Ryan would be principally interested but also for the survival of fishing communities and families into the future.

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

Noel Dempsey: Unless we tackle the illegality and give our sea fisheries officers the wherewithal to operate we will have severe difficulties in future. Some of the Opposition seem to think this Bill is not necessary. The Browne v. Attorney General and Kennedy v. Attorney General Supreme Court judgments have significantly undermined our legislative framework.

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

Noel Dempsey: I will look after mine and others will look after theirs.

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

Noel Dempsey: As those judgments have significantly undermined the current framework, it is critically important that this Bill is progressed through the Houses as quickly as possible. The Browne v. Attorney General and Kennedy v. Attorney General Supreme Court judgments found that section 223A of the Act, used to implement EU regulations, was not appropriate. Accordingly it has been necessary to rely...

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

Noel Dempsey: I am not going to allow multi-million euro profits from illegal fishing to be made at the expense of Irish taxpayers by a small group of fishermen who deliberately flouted the law and made huge sums of money.

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

Noel Dempsey: We need effective laws to deal with the minority of fishermen.

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

Noel Dempsey: A Deputy stated nothing has been done but within a week of arriving in the Department I received a letter from a man whose name is familiar to everyone in the House to tell me about illegal activities in the fishing industry. I immediately decided the allegations were serious enough to merit bringing them to the attention of the Garda, which we did. The Garda has since followed up the...

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

Noel Dempsey: The Deputy should know that not all the detected cases have been prosecuted yet.

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

Noel Dempsey: In Deputy O'Donovan's contribution he spoke about trying to refine and differentiate the levels of fines. He suggested making a distinction in respect of the confiscation of catch and gear, which I am examining. If possible, I will try to do something with the indulgence of the House. It is a sensible approach to lesser offences. In the Bill, we have differentiated and given the power to go...

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

Noel Dempsey: ——ensure conservation measures are respected by all, fish stocks are not overfished and our coastal communities have a future. As I said on Committee Stage last week, both the Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Browne, and I will sit down with the fishing industry and communities.

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

Noel Dempsey: We will move forward in conjunction with them for the further development of the Irish fisheries industry. We must do this on the basis of having a level playing field and removing the people who are depriving our fishermen of their livelihoods.

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

Noel Dempsey: I wasted my time responding to Deputy Jim O'Keeffe.

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

Noel Dempsey: Deputy Jim O'Keeffe should call a vote.

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

Noel Dempsey: Let us have a vote.

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

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 4: In page 10, lines 40 and 41, to delete "to this Act". This is a drafting amendment. It deletes the words referring to a Schedule to this Bill when an Act is rendered unnecessary by the Interpretation Act 2005, which is operative from 1 January 2006.

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

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, after line 41, to insert the following: "(2) Subject to sections 78, 85(3), 92(2) and 97(2), every order or regulation or licence, permit or authorisation made or granted under an enactment or a provision of an enactment repealed by subsection (1) is revoked.". This is necessitated by the Interpretation Act 2005, which is operative from 1 January 2006. That...

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

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, to delete lines 36 to 38 and substitute the following: ""fishing gear" includes any net, pot, trap, line, pole, dredge or other apparatus of any kind and any attachment of any kind thereto used or capable of being used for catching fish;". This amendment is in response to concerns expressed by Deputies Ferris and Perry on Committee Stage. The point the...

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

Noel Dempsey: We had a long discussion on this matter on Committee Stage. I pointed out then that the introduction of specific requirements, such as those proposed by the Deputy, cannot be done unilaterally. It is not possible to do this. I agree with Deputies Broughan and Eamon Ryan that it would be desirable that these kinds of controls and monitoring would be put in place, but we cannot act...

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

Noel Dempsey: Yes.