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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: It went on for three years without any additional effective consequences for the behaviour. We are facing into the same issue again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The EU is supposedly a confederation of sovereign nations, of which we are supposedly a part, and it supposedly has real and effective consequences it can impose on other sovereign nations for non-compliance or a non-willingness to deal with the issue. In reality, however, it does not do anything. Can Dr. Beamish point to anything the EU has done in respect of other trade agreements with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Dr. Beamish cannot do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The EU did not do anything in respect of mackerel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: We are an equal part of a European Union that is negotiating in respect of these matters and we are not getting anywhere. Surely the strength of the European Union is in trade and so on and it can be used as leverage to ensure countries comply with the agreements, but it is clear that is not happening and it is probably not going to happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Yes. Why not? Surely that is what this is about and that is what we should achieve. I contend that this is not done probably because ours is the only country that is affected by this, and I wonder to what extent we get a hearing on fishing issues at a European level whereby we can raise the importance of them. This is a very important issue for us and for the entire mackerel stock, as was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Is the Minister referring to EU nations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: We will have to agree to disagree on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Is that EU member states?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: We are also not seeing the willingness of the EU to enforce it with other nations as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: It is not going to do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: So, there are no real effective consequences for the behaviour. There is nothing that is going to force it to happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Up to now, basically there have not been any repercussions for it, except----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Regardless of that, up to this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Up to now, there has been no effective reason for it, except they have caught extra quota, and that has been factored in. There has not been any comeback for them in relation to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: What is the EU willing to do to ensure that happens?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The EU is the main negotiator in this and it has not been willing to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: The Minister said there are real and effective consequences, but the EU has not been willing to use any of the tools at its disposal. I will move on. The Minister also mentioned the Common Fisheries Policy review group in his submission. Perhaps it is my own fault and I should have been aware of it, but when I looked at the report I noted for the first time that the actual Common Fisheries...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Did that happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)
Thomas Pringle: Does the Minister think it is a coincidence that after Brexit it was decided not to have a review of the Common Fisheries Policy?