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

Timmy Dooley: Everybody has a different relationship with the agreement that exists with third countries. Some will benefit more. We always take the view that those that benefit more should pay most but it does not always work out like that. The fact that we have developed this fishery to such a real extent, and Killybegs is such a wonderful example of it, means that when it goes wrong we suffer most....

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

Timmy Dooley: I thank Deputy Ward. To his first point on the impact that this will have on communities, I absolutely get it. Having visited Killybegs and other fishing harbours and ports on a number of occasions since my appointment, Killybegs is the stand-out beacon of our pelagic sector - similar to Castletownbere, I suppose. Certainly, Killybegs has built up a phenomenal supply chain around the...

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

Timmy Dooley: On the first one, the answer is "Yes", but I am conscious that it is a battle because I do not have a veto. My view is that the Commission should not facilitate Norway at this time. I will be pushing that position but I will be doing so in a way that it is effectively saying to Norway that we cannot have business as usual and we cannot continue in this environment where we just nod along...

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

Timmy Dooley: I take the Cathaoirleach's point about the SFPA and the illegal activity where it takes place. In terms of the quota management, a lot of that is based on landings and monitoring of what is landed and where.

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

Timmy Dooley: There are two parts to that. This is not meant to be evasive or defensive but the SFPA is independent of me in its entirety and carries out its own functions without direction from me. Legislatively, I cannot involve myself in that. I am sure it will be listening to the Cathaoirleach's points. It does a risk-based analysis. We have to be careful about unintended consequences as well....

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

Timmy Dooley: I have been open from the start in saying that I am prepared to brief members individually or collectively whenever they can manage that. The agencies - the Marine Institute, the SFPA and BIM - will always be available with me to do that. We can arrange that for early morning or late evening over the course of the weeks ahead.

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

Timmy Dooley: I am happy to seek that advice but what we have to look at here is the framework in which all of this happens, which is the Common Fisheries Policy. I am conscious that other member states view their quota differently. In Ireland, we view the quota as a national resource. We assign catching capacity to certain vessels based on that, but we do not do anything that ascribes ownership or in...

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

Timmy Dooley: If it is okay, I will come back to the Senator on that. I have heard that mentioned before, and I will get the Senator specifics on it. I am conscious, however, that we had a relatively short window between the time we had to get money spent and when it was agreed. The Department and the State did a lot of good work, and I see projects have had the benefit of coming to the table a little...

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

Timmy Dooley: That is okay.

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

Timmy Dooley: I will come back to the Deputy. Off the top of my head, I do not have that.

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

Timmy Dooley: Dynamic closure, is that the one?

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

Timmy Dooley: Real-time closure, okay.

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

Timmy Dooley: I will be happy to get that information for the Deputy.

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

Timmy Dooley: I will write back to the committee and circulate the information to the members. We will do a bit of work on that.

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

Timmy Dooley: I will start at the end. I have been to Castletownbere, and I will go there again. I have been in Castletownbere two or three times - two certainly - and I brought the Commissioner to an event in Castletownbere. There are two I have not been to, namely, Dingle and Dunmore East, but I will visit them and I will continue that engagement. On the poorly drafted schemes, BIM works with us...

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

Timmy Dooley: I am happy to get information on the issue of real-time closure. What we have looked at is not the same. It relates to boarfish. There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that the scientific information on boarfish is not in line with what was expected. That is the position as best as I understand it. I am saying this on the basis of some scientific information I have been provided with....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: On the 30th September, I signed Policy Directive 1 of 2025 to give legal effect to the decision that Minister Heydon and I announced on 22nd July last to place certain restrictions on trawling activity by larger vessels, that is, vessels over 18 metres in length overall, 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: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Rockall is a small, uninhabitable rock located approximately 160 nautical miles west of the Scottish islands of St. Kilda, and 230 nautical miles to the north-west of Donegal. As the Deputy is aware, Ireland has not sought to claim sovereignty over Rockall. The UK claimed sovereignty over Rockall in 1955 and sought to formally annex it as part of Scotland under its 1972 Island of Rockall...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The bluefin tuna quota available to the EU is allocated each year to Member States based on relative stability, as established in the late 1990s. At that time, Ireland did not have a track record of commercial fishing for bluefin tuna and, accordingly, did not receive a quota allocation. A small bluefin tuna by-catch quota is available to Ireland, primarily for use in our important...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

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