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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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 83. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost of the most recent public recruitment campaign for the naval forces; and the current number of new recruits who have joined the force since the campaign began. [31307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 343. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has effectively capped SNAs staffing levels for secondary schools; and if any impact assessment has been taken regarding this measure. [31552/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department requires schools to assign resources for academic year 2025/26 from their current complement of SNAs irrespective of increased need for SNA resources. [31553/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the instruction her Department is giving schools that do not have enough SNA resources to cater to the needs of their pupils. [31554/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the situation in a school (details supplied) where a pupil that will enter the school in September requires 2 SNAs but sanction has only been given for 1.5, with the recommendation that .5 be reallocated from another child; if this is the policy of her Department; if she considers this an outworking of the SNA cap; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 467. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider extending the speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy services schemes and provide opportunities, which are not currently available to all children under the remit of disability within the Department, as outlined in the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026...