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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The energy bills apply to the fishing industry but it is to gas and electricity. For the processing sector, for example, I made sure it was eligible for the schemes in place. In relation to fishing boats themselves, they use marine gas oil so the measure I have had in place for them has been that second month's tie-up scheme, which has delivered €12 million to support the sector...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The behaviour by members of the coastal states structure has been disgraceful, setting unilateral targets which in no way resemble the capacity of the stock to be fished. Some are setting massively high stocks, saying they are going to fish them and going off and trying to do that. They are not coming to an agreement, which is about sustainably managing the stock. For example, mackerel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: He has made his views strongly on it too but Dr. Beamish will elaborate on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: A very important process is under way to get to a stage where we are fishing all stocks at maximum sustainable yield and where we do not see them depleted and overfished and a situation where they cannot be fished or are disappearing. The science and its assessment of them is central to that. I will ask Dr. Kelly, our scientific expert in the Marine Institute, who knows a hell of a lot more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The economic and social impact assessment being put together at the moment is based on the scientific advice because we do not have the total allowable catch agreements at Commission level yet. The negotiations with the UK have not commenced yet. As Minister, my objective in how the process evolves is to ensure we get the best possible outcome and that we have a situation where the economic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Mac Lochlainn for his questions. First, on the size of our fishing or processing industry, as I outlined to Deputy Michael Collins earlier on, the percentages of each of the stocks were set in the Common Fisheries Policy and the allocation key back in the early 1980s. That position had remained constant since then until the impact of Brexit. If one looks at what we catch in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: It is not tolerable and it is not being tolerated. It must change. Just being outraged does not change it. We have to work hard to change it. It speaks to how complicated and challenging it is to get agreement at international level on how fisheries are managed. If people do not come together and agree on managing fisheries sustainably there is only one inevitable result, which is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I will ask Ciaran Kelly of the Marine Institute to give his perspective on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: It is very challenging. The capacity to force an outcome is limited. It does require people to engage and agree. Whenever we are involved in international negotiations, that is what is required. As Dr. Kelly said, if people do not agree and if everybody does not take a responsible approach, the result is inevitable and nobody wins. There is a saying that an eye for an eye leaves everyone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The fishers themselves had asked for those schemes. Almost all of them have availed of it in the whitefish sector. As the Senator says, they have found it to have made a positive contribution. It has made fishing and going to sea more economically viable because it has made more quota available to those who are at sea while those who are tied up for one month are able to avail of an income...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I used the tie-up scheme as a means of delivering finance to the sector to help address the fuel scheme, whereas other member states, such as France and Spain, used money from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, EMFF. I have used fresh funding to avoid having to use that EMFF funding, so that is still an option and it is the option I have been keeping under consideration. The tie-up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Mackerel constitutes a very significant stock, including for France, for example. I assure the Deputy that at European level, including at Council level, it is an issue on which we put a lot of emphasis. The challenge is that these are sovereign nations and they are required to come together and agree, and that can be difficult.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: No, the coastal states such as the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Norway. It does speak to the challenges in relation to fisheries management and how difficult it can be. It is something that we and the Commission take very seriously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: It should also be noted that the other member states have not taken a responsible position in relation to the management of fisheries. Something that has been going on-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: No, other coastal member states, not EU member states. As we discussed in detail today, a responsible approach is being taken within the EU, which includes moving to maximum sustainable yield, managing fisheries well and the control around that, which is important. That will ensure we have sustainable fisheries into the future. That is what is happening at the EU level. Unfortunately, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Deputy is suggesting that we introduce full-blown trade sanctions in relation to this one issue. Obviously, that is a tool which the EU would have at its disposal, but it would be a big decision to make to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: We want and need a responsible approach by all parties to the issue in the engagement and negotiation. It is something that the European Commission is taking very seriously. Certainly, it is something that I am raising, along with other member states, ardently at Council meetings in trying to a successful outcome

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: In terms of how countries engage with one another and come to agreements, there are different engagements happening at different times. If countries are not engaging in a fair way with others, then that has repercussions. It is important that the issue continues to get the priority that it has been getting in the approach that the EU has taken. Ultimately, there are a number of players...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: What has been in place for the last two years is not sustainable.