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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: 10 o’clock An indication of the urgency was the Minister of State travelling to Killybegs last Sunday week to meet representatives of the sector from all parts of the country, from Donegal to Cork. There is no need to outline the utter devastation that will result from the reduction of the mackerel quota by 70% and blue whiting by 41%. Thousands of jobs in the sector will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: At this stage, it is not compensation we want; we want fish. The Minister of State will have to get the European Council to assist him. This is the first time this has happened. I go back to the days of Commissioner Damanaki, who was more in favour of Iceland than the European maritime states. The Minister of State's problem is that he will go into a Council of Ministers meeting and there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: My question is to ask the Minister of State with responsibility for the marine about the plans he has to address the Commission's proposals to reduce, drastically, the pelagic total level catches.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding the Saint Columba's College building project now that the tender report has been submitted since July 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54082/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I welcome Mr. Conneely and Mr. Bonner, and Mr. Early who is listening to us online from Arranmore island. I also welcome Mr. Neily Kavanagh, Mr. McBride and Ms Muireann Kavanagh. This is probably a small committee room compared to the committee room where Muireann addressed the European Parliament fisheries committee last year. It is important that we hear from the witnesses. We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: When we consider that people are going out and catching them by line, the impact that has on the stocks is 0.00001%. That is something we should take a particular interest in and we can make a case to the Minister and to the Commission to allow for that. It has no impact at all on those stocks. There is no more environmentally-friendly fishing. In the past few years, the drop in crab...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: We are obliged to end the meeting at 12.40 p.m. in view of the Budget Statement. In summary, we will ask the committee at a later stage to have another look at the 2014 report and Article 17, which has been referred to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Perhaps we should ask the Department of Social Protection to look at the 2014 report with reference to the contributions. The next speaker who indicated to the Chair before I came in is Deputy John Connolly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Mr. Early is online. He should feel free to interject any time he wishes. The Deputy is referring to the statement that the current regulation that sets out access to social welfare is from 1964.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Can Mr. Early hear us? No. We will move on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Has Senator O'Reilly any questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Does Mr. Bonner want to add to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Has Senator O'Reilly another question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Island Fisheries Issues: Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation (7 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I suppose we can ask the local authorities in the maritime counties. I can only speak for Donegal. We have a marine engineer who happens to be from the island and then he was promoted and there is another engineer now. It is not all about the local authorities funding this. Roinn na Gaeltachta can fund projects as well. If the various islands decide on doing an audit on what is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (2 Oct 2025)

Pat Gallagher: 278. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the technical review of IS 465 will be published now that the consultation on the review is closed for submissions since July 2025, in view of the fact of the urgency; if he will provide a clear timeline for the publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52850/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I thank witnesses for their presentations. It appears to me that, initially, the idea was to protect sprat for inshore fisheries but the wide brush was used on all of the other fisheries. In the north west, this will have implications for horse mackerel, nephrops and herring as no vessels will be able to fish there from October 2026. Even though the initial purpose was to ensure the sprats...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Gallagher: I do not think the question I posed around how they proposed 2,000 tonnes of sprat to be distributed over the 18 m vessels that are allowed to fish there between now and the end of September next year has been answered. Could somebody give me the chronological order from the date the Minister will sign and place before the House the statutory instrument bringing into force the ban from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Gallagher: What about the 2,000 tonnes of sprat?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Sprat Fishing: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Pat Gallagher: Thank you.