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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Section 12 of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 provides for the appointment of members to serve on the Board of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI). The legislation provides for nine members to be appointed by the Minister to the Board of IFI There are currently no plans to amend this legislation.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: There are currently no plans in the Department to establish a national recreational angling fund.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) promotes sustainable recreational angling in accordance with its statutory remit to both encourage angling and to protect, conserve, and restore the inland fisheries resource. The practice of catch and release where fish are caught and carefully returned to the water has become standard among an increasingly environmentally aware and conscientious angling...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Since September 2023, a total of 4 meetings of the Angling Consultative Council of Ireland (ACCI)/Angling Advisory Group (AAG) have been convened. The dates of these meetings were as follows:25 September 20236 August 202415 October 202419 August 2025Officials in the Department have also proposed additional meetings of this Group in the intervening periods between these dates but it has not...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: At present there are no marine protected areas (MPAs) designated in Ireland’s maritime area, pending the publication and subsequent enactment of the necessary legislation that is currently being progressed by my Department. There are collectively over 160 sites designated with marine qualifying interests under the EU Birds Directive (i.e. Special Protection Areas) and EU Habitats...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: My Department considers all applications for aquaculture licences, including those for salmon hatcheries, in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act, the 1933 Foreshore Act and applicable national and EU legislation. The licensing process is complex and involves consultation with a wide range of scientific and technical advisers as well as various Statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: My Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl, under statute. In addition, my Department also has responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of North Harbour at Cape Clear, as well as the maintenance of a small number of specific piers, lights and beacons...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The Joint Sub-Committee Report to which the Deputy refers made a number of recommendations which concerned a range of Government policies and Government Departments. Recommendation 22 of the report ‘recommends that local authorities with responsibility for such island and coastal communities carry out an audit of essential rural coastal and island fishing access infrastructure suitable...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: My Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl, under statute. In addition, this Department also has responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of North Harbour at Cape Clear, as well as the maintenance of a small number of specific piers, lights and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: One of the actions for my Department in the Programme for Government is to invest in our State Fishery Harbour Centres and public marine infrastructure. The vast majority of the State's piers, harbours and slipways are under the control of local authorities. The responsibility for the development and maintenance of local authority owned infrastructure rests with each local authority in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The Brown Crab Working Group was established last year, with a specific, time-bound purpose to review the management of brown crab fishing in Ireland and to identify measures to support the sustainability of brown crab stocks. Brown crab is a very important stock for Irish fishers and coastal communities, in particular the Irish inshore fleet and a number of purpose-built larger vessels up to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I have met with the National Inshore Fishermen's Association and other representatives of the inshore sector and I am very aware of the challenges facing the inshore fisheries sector. The income supports for farmers that the Deputy refers to are provided within the framework of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and specifically on the basis of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 which sets out...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Regulations (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: On the 30 September, I signed Policy Directive 1 of 2025 to give legal effect to the decision that Minister Heydon and I announced on 22 July last to place certain restrictions on trawling activity by larger vessels, that is, vessels over 18 meters in length overall (LOA), inside the six nautical mile zone and the baselines:From 1 October 2026, trawling activity, that is, the operating of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The responsibility for the development and maintenance of local authority owned piers, harbours and slipways rests with each local authority in the first instance. As such, the facilities at Cromane are under the remit of Kerry County Council in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, thereafter. The Deputy will be aware that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The responsibility for the development and maintenance of Renard Pier rests with Kerry County Council in the first instance, and with its parent department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage thereafter. In regard to the extension of the slipway to accommodate a larger ferry, I understand that the contract to provide the ferry service to Valentia Island was awarded by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I wish to assure the Deputy that I fully recognise the importance of the Irish Sea mussel seed fishery and of wild mussel seed as raw material for the bottom grown mussel aquaculture sector. These primary producers, in turn, supply the downstream indigenous seafood processing and export industries and help to sustain the livelihoods of coastal communities. The importance of these primary and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (4 Nov 2025)

Timmy Dooley: My Department considers all applications for aquaculture licences in accordance with the provisions of the 1997 Fisheries (Amendment) Act, the 1933 Foreshore Act and applicable national and EU legislation. The licensing process is complex and involves consultation with a wide range of scientific and technical advisers as well as various Statutory Consultees. The legislation also provides for...

Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I will try not to use my full time because I am conscious that a number of Members want to contribute, and I will facilitate that. I thank the Deputies for seeking the opportunity for statements on fishing. It is timely considering the recent developments in the discussions and negotiations for fishing opportunities for 2026 but also as a chance to discuss other important issues and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (22 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Each year, my Department carries out a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) to look at the overall impacts the possible fishing opportunities for the following year could have on the sustainability of the fishing sector from a biological, economic and social perspective. The Sustainability Impact Assessment, which involves a public consultation process along with expert contributions...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fishing Industry (21 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Deputy Gallagher for his continued support. I have made it very clear to officials who negotiate on our behalf in advance of Council meetings that it cannot be business as usual. Today I instructed officials to vote against any access to blue whiting in European waters for Norway. I intend to maintain this position throughout. I accept we do not have a veto and that a blocking...