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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)

Andrew Doyle: I do not think that is being suggested. Chairman: That has not been suggested.

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)

Andrew Doyle: I have shown the Senator some latitude. On the point as to whether it is a safety and modernisation request, using the example of the replacement of a timber boat by a steel vessel with greater interior capacity, surely there is a way of adapting the boat to restrict it to the same capacity inside while making it safer. Surely skins or liners could be put inside it to deal with that issue....

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)

Andrew Doyle: I am only making a point about the conditions of acceptance of-----

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)

Andrew Doyle: It is 3.25 p.m. and I am going to stop this at 3.30 p.m. The Deputy can have one more interjection and that is it.

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)

Andrew Doyle: The Minister might also take Senator Comiskey's question and then we will go to landing obligations.

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)

Andrew Doyle: Do members wish to raise questions on landing obligations?

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)

Andrew Doyle: The Minister has made available €450,000 to Bord Iascaigh Mhara and the Marine Institute to carry out a study on the potential impact and will it be ready before the Minister enters the annual negotiations on the Hague Preferences at the end of the year?

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)

Andrew Doyle: When the Minister states that we will have people on boats, does he mean additional people or staff?

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)

Andrew Doyle: We are ahead of schedule. I thank the Minister and his officials for attending and making a presentation. Obviously, these are two interesting subjects. The landing obligations will involve a transition period. Regarding the specific proposals made by the group of 18 boat owners, I hope that an open mind can be kept on the matter and that they can be considered in context. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Apologies have been received from Deputies Thomas Pringle and Éamon Ó Cuív. As a vote has been called in the Dáil, I propose to suspend the sitting until the vote has concluded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome Mr. Donal Maguire, director of the aquaculture development division at Bord Iascaigh Mhara, and his colleague, Ms Catherine Morrison, project development manager. I also welcome Mr. Lorcán Ó Cinnéide, who is representing the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association. I thank the witnesses for attending today, at short notice, to discuss the national strategic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I might pose one question. I thank members for their questions. Much of the concern that has been articulated, and not just at the committee, has been about buy-in and agreement with local communities. The committee has done a number of reports, but Deputy Ferris referred in particular to the visit to Scotland. The aim of the report in question was to develop an economic model for rural,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: It probably is the same analogy as getting a car washed after the roads have been gritted. One gets one's brake callipers fixed very quickly before they heat up or one will be in trouble. Salty water, when it heats up, is highly corrosive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Much more than when it is cold.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: IFA Aquaculture will appear before the joint committee next Wednesday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I thank Mr. Maguire for that information, which it is nice to have flagged for members. I again thank the three witnesses, namely, Ms Morrison, Mr. Maguire and Mr. Ó Cinnéide, for bearing with us. There is a general consensus that having a strategic plan in draft form for consultation is a good thing but the point is it should not become just another plan without an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (2 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: Apologies have been received from Deputy Thomas Pringle. Is it agreed to go into private session to deal with some committee matters? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: I welcome Mr. Sean Coughlan, chief executive officer, and Dr. Andrew Cromie, technical director of the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation and I thank them for attending the committee to discuss with members some of the technical aspects of the beef data and genomics programme from a breeding perspective. I thank them for their indulgence with the delay in starting the meeting in order to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: The facts are often hostages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (2 Jul 2015)

Andrew Doyle: In regard to the requirement on four and five stars for bulls and replacements, am I correct to say it only has to be on either the terminal or maternal side?