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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: You are benchmarking against your own failures.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Where is the 40,000?

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Throughout the State, families are crying out for housing. If they are not crying out for housing, they are in our clinics crying to us because they are facing eviction or watching their children raise their families crammed into their childhood bedrooms, sometimes multiple families in the one home. They are the hidden homeless who are never counted in the figures and never make it into the...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Hear, hear.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Maidin mhaith gach éinne, fáilte romhaibh go dtí an cruinniú choiste seo. I have no apologies and no substitutions for this meeting. The clerk to the committee will bring in the witnesses now and I will provide the privilege information required for each meeting once they are in the room. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that members must be...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: If Ms Bocquel summarises, it might be better and a more efficient use of time. She can highlight the points she believes are worth highlighting.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank the chief executive officer. I ask members to indicate if they wish to speak. I have Senator Boyhan and Deputies Whitmore and Mac Lochlainn, in that order. I call Senator Boyhan, who has ten minutes.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Deputy, I am sorry to interrupt but I remind you to leave some time for the witnesses to respond to the questions.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Deputy will have an opportunity to come back.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Senator Blaney, the floor is yours.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I have a number of questions. Before we go into another round of questions, I propose to ask them now. I thank Ms Bocquel for coming to the committee. It is timely with the publication of the report. That said, we were planning as a committee to speak to Bord Iascaigh Mhara early on in any case. The report is comprehensive, clear and easy to navigate. Similar to what other members...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I am referring specifically to imports. Ireland owns one eighth of the EU's fishing grounds – they are part of our sovereign territory – yet we have less than 6% of the fishing quota. I understand this is not because BIM ordained it so but it is the reality we are operating in. Processors here are experiencing growth but have to import fish. I assume they are importing in...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We have a little bit of extra time available so I propose we go for another round of questions. Will Deputies indicate if they have questions? I know Deputies Mac Lochlainn and Gallagher and Senator Boyle have already done so. We will take five minutes each. I remind members that this includes both the question and the response. Members should be fair to our witnesses and give them time...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I have a number of questions myself. I will give them to you all at the beginning and if you could answer them sequentially, I would be grateful. The first relates to infrastructure and, although not a core function of BIM, it is something on which it no doubt engages. I am on record as saying to the Minister that his Department's local authority ports and harbours funding scheme is...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Before we wrap up this part of the meeting, I have a comment on the razor clam fishery and the associated issues. Does Ms Bocquel envisage a role for BIM?

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We will now wrap up this part of the meeting. I thank Ms Bocquel for engaging and attending. We will definitely invite her again. Her fisheries report will be out in September. After it is published, it might be worthwhile having a conversation again. We could specifically consider the sea fisheries aspect, having regard to that part of the operation that takes place at sea rather than...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board: Chairperson Designate (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 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 a witness has a full defence in any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting. However, witnesses are expected not to abuse this privilege and may be directed to cease giving evidence on an issue at the...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board: Chairperson Designate (17 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Dr. McCarthy. I will now open to questions. I call Deputy Mac Lochlainn. We will keep it to five minutes, given the time we have. That is to include the question and response. There are countdown timers located around the room. We will try to keep within the five minutes.