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Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank the Minister of State. Once again, I remind members their allotted five minutes include time for the questions and the responses. I call Deputy Cleere.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I will ask the Minister of State to wrap up on that. We will have an opportunity at the meeting after next when this committee will look at offshore renewable energies. Given that all members have already had a first opportunity to speak, I have a number of questions I would like to put to the Minister of State. As Deputy Mac Lochlainn mentioned, he and I and our party launched that...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We have discussed this previously. We will have to come back to it at a future committee meeting because that is out of kilter with the way other Departments fund other local authority projects where there is money for development. We have some 15 minutes left on this item with the Minister of State. I will open it up to the floor. I remind members that we will go for five minutes but...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is that okay with Deputy Cahill?

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I ask the Minister of State to keep his answers to three minutes.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I am required to read a short statement on privilege for the benefit of our witnesses. Witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. This means that a witness has full defence in any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting. However, witnesses are expected not to...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Mr. Conneely. We are just out of time. We have timers in the room, although I am not sure whether he can see them on his screen. I ask witnesses and members to be cognisant of them. They are in red around the room. I thank Mr. Conneely for his two-minute synopsis. I now move to Mr. Cormac Burke.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Mr. Lynch. We will open up to questions and answers. I call Deputy Gallagher in the first instance followed by Senator Boyle and Deputy Ward.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I take it that question was directed at Mr. Byrne.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Go raibh maith agat. Next we have Senator Boyle. He has five minutes including the response. Will the Senator direct his question to one of our witnesses in particular if possible?

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I am sorry, but I will have to move on.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I remind the Senator to leave time for the Minister of State to answer.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Deputy Cahill is next. I wish to advise that a number of people have indicated and we only have ten minutes left in the session.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending here today. It is the first time, but it certainly will not be the last time. As he heard, there is a wide range of issues that we wish to discuss with him and tease out in more detail and at length. I thank him and his officials for their contributions to today's meeting. We will suspend to allow...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I am being a little more lenient because we are ahead of time. We will finish out this piece of the engagement and then go for another round of very brief points and questions before we finish. Is that okay with everyone?

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Does Mr. Conneely want to speak on this particular question? If that is not the case, we will go to another round of questions. I ask members to keep their questions very pointed and very brief. We have 15 minutes left. I ask members to direct their questions to an individual witness.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We will come back to Mr. Lynch for a response after brief comments from Deputy Ward and a few minutes from Deputy Mac Lochlainn.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: After Deputy Mac Lochlainn speaks we will take a round of responses, if that is okay.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Before hearing a final round of responses to questions, I will make a couple of comments and pose a question of my own. Earlier, when the Minister of State was here, I asked him a question about attitudes and culture at the heart of government. I was shocked but not surprised by the results of the report alluded to by Deputy Mac Lochlainn. The lack of confidence and hope within the...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Uasal Conneely. I thank the Minister and his officials for being at the first part of the meeting and the sectoral representatives for being at the second part. We had a really good discussion. I thank members for the co-operation. This is the first meeting I have chaired at which we have had witnesses. We had a number of business meetings to set up the...