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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Manus Boyle: I thank everybody for coming in. It is really interesting and, to be honest, it is totally new to me. It is great to listen and learn from our guests, because they are the ones that are going through it. I only have a couple of quick questions because colleagues have already covered a lot. On the Garda project, what is being done in Limerick is brilliant and An Garda Síochána...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Manus Boyle: Professor Sadlier answered a question from my colleague before she left but if this goes ahead in the morning, how long will it take to get the personnel in place? We do not have all of the personnel in place right now. If the Bill is passed in six month's time, realistically how many years would it take to get the people in place that we need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Manus Boyle: My God, I am glad I asked the question. From a parochial end, I am from Donegal, where we say we are the forgotten county. What Professor Sadlier is telling me is that we might never have anybody in Donegal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Manus Boyle: A lot of it has been covered. It is about how we get it right. We have the Bill coming before us. It is great to talk and get everybody's point of view but, at the end of the day, if we pass this Bill, do we have the people in place to follow it through? From what I am hearing today, we do not have the people to do the work. That is going to be a big stumbling block moving forward....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Manus Boyle: That is a fair point. There is no point in having the best policy if we have nobody to implement it.

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)

Manus Boyle: I welcome the Minister of State. It is great to have a Minister for the marine now. It is long overdue. Little did I think, when I called a public meeting in Killybegs four years ago, that people from all over Ireland would come to a meeting on the fishing industry. That was the start of us getting the ball rolling on this and getting it into the programme for Government. It is probably...

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)

Manus Boyle: Sorry, I know I will get a chance. The Minister of State said a facilitator is coming in, but we need somebody out there too lobbying on our behalf 24-7. Having somebody out there who is fit to lobby is something the Department should look at. It would then make it easier on the Minister of State, when he goes out, to have the pathway walked and it would only be a matter of finalising it.

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)

Manus Boyle: Could I come back in for one second?

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)

Manus Boyle: I was out there. We met with the representatives and the first thing said to me was that we only lost 26%. Listen here, let us call a spade a spade. If we have somebody going in and negotiating for us who then says we only lost 26%, where are we going to be in the next negotiations?

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)

Manus Boyle: I wish to raise a few wee things. As has been stated, we were in Castletown when the Commissioner was there. He is really getting involved in the new species that are coming into Irish waters because of global warming. Is there any way we could conduct a review to see what is coming into Irish waters to try to be ahead to the posse? Bluefin tuna were mentioned. It would be a good help...

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)

Manus Boyle: First, I congratulate the boys. It is great to see them here. Normally, I would be with them on that side of the room. It is different sitting over here. I am so glad they are here. They are representing their industry and it is the same with the people on Microsoft Teams. This is long overdue. We should have had this ten or 15 years ago and maybe the industry would not be in the mess...

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)

Manus Boyle: I thank the gentlemen for their insight. We need them to come in more regularly to give us updates on what is going on in this area and to tell it like it is. The elephant in the room is that we have problems with the Department at home. We have to get those problems sorted. Europe is a problem. I agree with Deputy Mac Lochlainn. We had the Minister of State in here earlier and I asked...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Manus Boyle: I congratulate St. Naul's pipe band, which celebrated 80 years in Inver last Saturday. It was a very good occasion and something I will remember for a long time. I also congratulate St. Naul's school in Keeloges, which won the biodiversity school of the year. I am proud to announce we beat Mayo, with Senator Duffy in front of me. Well done to the Donegal team. I am standing here to...

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

Manus Boyle: I thank the witnesses for coming in. It is great to have them. We will get an insight into the industry by asking questions as the months go on. Ms Bocquel was with me in the room at the Niall Mór centre. The Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, was also there. The sheer frustration from processors that day was very bad, as she will recall. From what I hear on the ground, even when...

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

Manus Boyle: The reason BIM is seeing that is people are just hanging on by their fingernails. They are trying to cut costs at all levels. The only way to do that is to mechanise. That day at the Niall Mór centre, I found sheer frustration in the room about how long it took. Hopefully, as Ms Bocquel said, the new grant scheme application now being done on a mobile phone means it will be much...

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

Manus Boyle: On the EMFAF funding, what kind of a pot have we got to deal with that? The Brexit funding is closed now. It is gone. What is the new funding source?

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

Manus Boyle: The report is very good and very well laid out. We were very lucky this year that the mackerel price went sky high. If the price had stayed where it was, as normal, the report would have been very different reading. If that changes, we are in real bother. Has BIM any plans there?

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

Manus Boyle: That is one for the future. Everybody knows what is happening with the mackerel quotas. Blue whiting seems to be the next in line. Is there any plans to get that up and going? The factories are getting their own markets. It seems it is going to take us over that wee hump.

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

Manus Boyle: On the question of boarfish, down on the pier I am hearing from skippers all the time that there is a vast quantity of boarfish out there. They are mixing in with herring and mackerel. Is there something that could be done there so that we could try to move it on? There seems to be a vast quantity of them out there. That is something we could really tap into. I agree with Deputy Mac...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2025)

Manus Boyle: I wish to express my concern about the lack of funding for festivals. Like other counties, Donegal has lost some festivals this year that are not going ahead. These include the Donegal food festival, the Sea Sessions festival in Bundoran and the Donegal town festival, to name a few. The Rory Gallagher Festival has been a part of Donegal and Ballyshannon for over two decades. The town was...