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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: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Impact Assessments (14 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 724, 737 and 738 together. I am advised that the Malahide classified production area (CPA), which extends to an area off the coast of Malahide and Portmarnock, is one of four production areas in the north Irish Sea classified for razor clam fishing. Razor clam can only be harvested from areas that the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) has...

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

Timmy Dooley: I can confirm that industry members of the Bottom Grown Mussel Consultative Forum (BGMCF) are pressing for an opening of the mussel seed fishery in the Irish Sea this autumn as productive seed beds have been identified through Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) surveys off Wexford. I wish to assure the Deputy that I fully recognise the importance of this fishery and of wild mussel seed as raw material...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fisheries Protection (9 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I understand the anglers' perspective, but IFI is charged with the conservation of the Atlantic salmon stock. It is conscious of the protection and preservation of that species in all its forms. There is a concern that once the stock is above the conservation limit, it is not justified. At the time it was there before the conservation limit was under pressure, there was also an exercise in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fisheries Protection (9 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Deputy Connolly for raising this issue. I know of his great interest in the angling sector. He is passionate about this issue and it is very close to his heart. He has had a number of discussions with me about angling, generally. I must begin by putting on the record that operational matters such as this are the preserve of IFI. I have no direct capacity to force it to do...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. As Minister of State with responsibility for marine in the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, I am pleased to announce that I have secured a significant budget of almost €158 million to support the fisheries sector for 2026. This funding will continue to provide support across capital infrastructure projects...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (7 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: 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 secondary seafood production...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishery Harbour Centres (7 Oct 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I propose to take Questions Nos. 492 and 493 together. In March this year I announced details of €27.75 million allocated for capital projects in Ireland’s publicly owned harbours through the 2025 Fishery Harbour Centre and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme. Of this, I allocated €23 million investment to modernise and enhance the six state-owned Fishery...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fisheries Protection (30 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: The River Nore, near Inistiog in Kilkenny, is one of Ireland’s salmonid rivers meaning it naturally supports salmon and trout populations. Ireland’s salmonid fisheries are managed on a river-by-river basis using robust scientific advice on conservation limits. A conservation limit is the minimal number required to ensure a stock remains sustainable. Harvesting (i.e. removal...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fisheries Protection (30 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: I want to acknowledge the seriousness of the fish kill that occurred on the River Blackwater and its tributaries near Mallow, Co Cork, and I fully recognise the enormous impact this incident has had on local communities, anglers and users of this important river catchment. From the outset, I have been in regular contact with local councillors and public representatives and engaged...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authorities (30 Sep 2025)

Timmy Dooley: Local authorities who need to carry out remedial works to alleviate damage from flooding, landslide, subsidence or other similar occurrences may do so under the Local Authorities (Works) Act 1949. Where such works come under the scope of fisheries legislation, the local authority is required to obtain permission, in the form of a derogation, from the Department. The process for obtaining a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (30 Sep 2025)

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