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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: So, just as the SFPA is overseeing the weighing of fish in Killybegs, it has responsibility under the regulation to make sure that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Does the SFPA have the authority in the North?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Mr. O’Mahony stated fish can be purchased from the North by a processor in Killybegs or elsewhere.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Must they be weighed first in the North, be it in Derry or wherever they come in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Who is responsible for ensuring they are weighed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: What authority ensures that is happening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: So when theIngrid Majalacame into Derry because it was prevented from coming into Killybegs and being able to offload its fish in a manner where it would still be of a standard where it was suitable for human consumption, was the fish weighed in Derry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: I qualified that; in a manner that would allow for the fish to be available for human consumption.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: And I take issue with the fact that Mr. Hayes takes issue with it but to return to the point, was the fish weighed in Derry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Do processors purchase fish? Is this routine, where a processor would purchase fish that had landed in Derry in the past?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: It is not abnormal. Okay. How does the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority ensure that the regulations which have nothing to do with it, because the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in the North is supposed to do this and the SFPA is not concerned whether fish is being landed in France, Spain or wherever because the SFPA has its job to do in the jurisdiction in which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Are they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: How is the SFPA notified of whether they are weighed? Or is it notified?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: They cannot be weighed in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Yes but they can be bought by Irish processors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Okay. If there have been 100 landings since the start of the year, how does the SFPA satisfy itself that all the landings have been weighed in the port in which it was landed originally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: But the SFPA decides then, because the SFPA decided in a case, which is a unique case, to strip away the weighing licence of two operators. This was because, what, loads of publicity because RTÉ was showing up what was happening in this dispute?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: Has it happened in any other case where fish have come into the port of Derry and been purchased by processors in the Twenty-Six Counties?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Pearse Doherty: That is the question. We know that. The question is how does the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority satisfy itself whether that is happening or not? It went out of its way in some way to find out that it did not happen. I am not suggesting that it did not happen but the SFPA obviously assumed that it did not happen because as a result of that, it took the weighing licences off two...