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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I welcome that the witnesses mentioned we need to stay within the scientific limits. There are biological caps and limits to what we can do. How the EU is managing this is clearly not respecting those limits. This is an area where science is hitting politics and, unfortunately, Ireland is not winning the political game at the EU table. There will still be legislation and statutes which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: No, but they are not protecting European fishers against-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That is my question. Is there an opportunity for a legal challenge against those European decisions? Europe has not paid attention to fisheries concerns in Ireland for many decades. We are a very small player politically, although we are a large player from a resource perspective. At what stage is it going to require holding Europe to account for managing its seas and fisheries? What are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Would either of the other witnesses like to add to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have a question for Mr. Lynch in relation to his conclusions wherein it is specified that one thing that could be done is a review of the minimum conservation reference size for demersal fish. Could he go through that a little bit with me?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Obviously, this would not work for all aspects, but there is a question as to whether from a fisheries science perspective we are better off leaving the big fish in because they are the ones that are actually the most fecund; they are the ones that will actually lend to the next generation. Obviously, it depends on the fisheries. It is not going to work with trawling and all the rest, but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Okay. It was just interesting that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: There is a sort of inherent knowledge among the more mature fish. There was a collapse in the herring fishery off Iceland because all the large fish were gone and the young fish did not know and they brought them to a completely different fishing ground, which meant the boats were waiting in the wrong area. It is something I might raise with the Marine Institute later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Minister of State may regret saying that. I thank him for coming in. I have a few questions. In the sustainability impact assessment as it relates to biological assessment, it is stated that the short-term trend since 2021 gives rise to a growing concern. Will the Minister of State provide some rationale for that? Is it due to the fact that Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It does not necessarily resolve it on a one-for-one basis. Is there potential that if people are not able to fish mackerel, they will fish something else that could potentially encroach on the inshore sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Has the Minister of State received legal advice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: I seek a response on the Marine Institute.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It could be down to temperature, tidal changes or something in the physical environment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: That would be very worrying because it would essentially mean that any fishing future is very changeable. At the moment it is very hard to predict.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Our national policies should reflect that and provide supports for the sectors fishing those vulnerable species. It seems very dynamic and the security will not be there. That needs to be translated into policy.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It is a week today since Manchán Magan passed from this world. I take this opportunity to remember him and reflect on a truly incredible person. In the past week, we have heard people who knew him well tell stories about him and talk about their respect for him and gratitude for the work he did and how he touched their lives. I did not know him. I only met him once at a talk he gave...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: Up Catherine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: McDonald's do not deserve it and I know that the cafés in Wicklow will agree that McDonald's does not deserve millions of euros of their money.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: We said it should be split.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Jennifer Whitmore: It should be split, Taoiseach.