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Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Amendment No. 16 has already been discussed with No. 14.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Amendment No. 17 has already been discussed with No. 7.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Will the Deputy stick to the amendment?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: We are dealing with amendment No. 18.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Will we stay on amendment No. 18 and amendment No. 19-----

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Can we focus on the amendment?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I shall allow Deputy Danny Healy-Rae to make a brief comment because he will have another opportunity again.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Very, very briefly.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I know. Very briefly.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: A final comment, Minister.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: We have discussed this issue a lot. How stands the amendment?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: As full membership is present, we will proceed with the vote.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: As it is now 4.15 p.m. I propose that we conclude business. We will be in touch with members with a view to agreeing a time to complete the committee's consideration of Committee Stage of the Bill. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a scheme similar to a loan scheme (details supplied) will be put in place for fishermen. [18462/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Credit unions across Munster have, as they always do, come to the rescue, which I greatly welcome, for farmers by providing unsecured loans of up to €50,000. Can a similar low-rate loans - unsecured loans - be offered to inshore fishermen who lost much of their fishing gear during Storm Ophelia?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: Inshore fishermen have been hit hard in the past 11 years since the salmon drift net ban and that has led to huge job losses in the industry. Inshore fishermen have had one of the longest and worst winters in living memory. I have spoken to quite a few fishermen in west Cork and that is the feedback I have got. They are facing substantial losses as the lobster and crab season is very slow...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I appreciate that the Minister is developing a scheme, which is very much needed at this time. I spoke to one fisherman who is trying to take out a personal loan of €10,000 to do up his punt and to replace the pots he has lost. The loan puts himself and his family under incredible pressure. I would appreciate if the Minister would speed up the development of the scheme to which he...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: In 2007, a ban on inshore fishermen using salmon drift nets was put in place. It was meant to be reviewed after seven years. This has led to inshore fishermen not being able to fish for salmon and is leading to huge losses for local rural communities. It has now been proven that inshore fishermen were not to blame for the loss of salmon stocks as stocks are still dropping. This is due in...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: I asked about the review which was to take place after seven years.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (26 Apr 2018)

Michael Collins: 160. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a meal subsidy will be put in place for farmers to offset the meal bills which they have incurred during the fodder crisis; and if a crisis payment based on stock numbers to help farmers deal with the fallout of the fodder crisis will also be put in place. [18463/18]