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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: Over the last three years, this committee has always worked through votes, through Seanad and Dáil votes, where appropriate. There is a member who is willing to contribute and is not paired, so I suggest that the meeting continues, otherwise we will be here until 12 midnight.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: That is no problem. I apologise to the witnesses for the interruption. Deputy Fitzmaurice has ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: I will come back to Deputy Fitzmaurice. The time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: I have ten minutes. I will come back to the Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice. I can come back to him if I am caught. First of all, I thank Ms McSherry for her presentation. I will start on the proposals in reverse order. On COM (2023) 578, relating to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, would it be true that we never fish out there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: I was thinking that the last time I was there. That is the first one gone so. On COM (2003) 495, would it be true that we would have limited fishing out there, to say the least?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: I thank Ms McSherry very much. That is two of the three issues put to bed in a very short space of time. Let us be fair, the other proposal is the serious proposal regarding where we are regarding the North Sea, etc. Could Ms McSherry possibly elaborate on that? Of all the three proposals, and I do not know about the first one there, the other ones remain probably where we are. Could...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: We have often heard what Norway gets in the negotiations from the European Union side. What does the European Union get from Norway on that side of the negotiation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: We have often heard commentary that they make up their own quotas or the quotas are quite fluid in Norway. There is scientific evidence on how we control our stocks. Is there ever a concern about making sure we are not in a scenario where we could be overfishing with the potential that Norway may be involved in changing its own numbers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: Ms O'Sullivan is basically saying that the scientific evidence we base our quotas on is not being adhered to by Iceland or Norway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: In Ms McSherry's contribution, she mentioned an additional €3 million annually for the Irish fisher. That relates to the additional mackerel quota. Will she inform us what tonnage that has regard to? How can we get an idea of the tonnage in the quota?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: Okay, I was just trying to put it in tonnes. I am very conscious that I am caught for time. My last question is slightly off-topic. I apologise for that and, if the witnesses do not have the answer, that is very fair. On our national policy regarding landing fish, we have a national policy regarding fish but, to some degree, you can land the fish wherever you want. You can go to Norway...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: No, I am talking about Irish vessels.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: Are we talking about Norway, Northern Ireland and the UK?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: The vote in the Dáil has finished and I would say other members will be back shortly. Senator Paul Daly has indicated that he wants to speak. No, he does not want to speak on this issue yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: That is slightly outside of the agenda. The witnesses do not have to answer if they do not want to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: That is fair enough. I apologise, there is another vote. Unfortunately, we will have to suspend for a period of time until we have a quorum again. There is another vote in the Dáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 Jan 2024)
Tim Lombard: All of the members present have asked questions. I thank the witnesses for attending. They were very helpful and clarified many issues for the committee. We will now suspend briefly before inviting the next group of witnesses to appear before the committee.