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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: Can I ask something? Are the members of the committee saying that they wish to see observers on all vessels, including vessels featuring a refrigerated sea water, RSW, system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: I wish to clarify what they are asking me to consider.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: I knew the earlier discussion would take some time because the issue upsets many people. I will follow it up in discussion with other Ministers. We have received correspondence from the Dutch pelagic industry on this and that industry has also sent some letters to newspapers to give its side of the story. I realise there is concern about it so we will continue to discuss it. With regard to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: To be clear, the Hague preference is a subset. The overall employment figure is between 275 and 325, but it is still a big figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: That is not something I can accept.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: To be fair, in recent years they do not have influence on the whitefish side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: Yes, the cuts are in the whitefish sector.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: That is on the maximum sustainable yield, MSY.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: The inshore sector is not part of this debate, which relates to taxes and quotas. As Deputy Ferris and others will be aware, most of the inshore sector is not involved in trawling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: Many of the inshore boats are not involved in fishing for quota species. We have done a great deal for the inshore sector in recent years. For the first time, it has proper representation and is represented on quota allocation groups. Also for the first time, it now has regional representative bodies in addition to its national representative body. The Department will allocate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: I am not saying the Deputy's suggestion about the position with regard to the UK was in any way different from what I indicated, but demersal is important that people know what the position is in that regard. Either Britain has recognised that the Common Fisheries Policy is good in terms of fish stocks or it has recognised that it cannot renegotiate the CFP. Either way, it is not part of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: There would be 10% fewer prawns.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: The proposal without a quota uplift would have reduced the prawn catch by almost 20%. As a result of the quota uplift, the reduction will be less than 10%. Having said that, this does not take into account many of the other issues. We are being forced to reach maximum sustainable yield for prawns next year. Considering that prawns are the most important species for the Irish fishing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (8 Dec 2015)
Simon Coveney: The committee has a busy day.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Simon Coveney: My understanding is that we sent the document on Friday evening, which was the last time the Department effectively updated the position. The point of a Supplementary Estimate is that it is essentially an extra Estimate before the end of the year, as things change all the time. The idea that we can give a week's notice misses the point of a Supplementary Estimate. This is about trying to...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Simon Coveney: I am told the figures could have been given last Tuesday but it was not put together until Friday. If the Deputy knew all the figures two weeks ago, he would have had the information two weeks ago. I am here to give a detailed brief on, and an explanation of, all the figures. We will certainly take on board Deputy Ó Cuív's point on giving more notice when we can in order that...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Simon Coveney: I accept the point made by the Chairman. I was away all of last week, as were some senior officials from the Department. A huge amount of work is going on in the Department at the moment in finalising multiple schemes and payments. I take the point we were a couple of days late and we will certainly try to address that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Simon Coveney: I would like to make a comprehensive statement as it concerns the large sum of money. It is €104 million.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Simon Coveney: It is a long time since the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine introduced an extra €104 million Supplementary Estimate.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Simon Coveney: It is primarily a good news story. There are some challenges but it is essentially a good news story.