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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: .... Under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006, all operational issues concerning sea-fisheries control are, as a matter of law, exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. Under the Act, I am expressly precluded from getting involved in such operational matters, including those in relation to law enforcement. The Deputy's query...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (2 Jul 2009)

Brendan Smith: I understand that the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is engaged in a project to install CCTV systems in a number of ports around the country under that body's statutory obligation to deter and detect contraventions of sea-fisheries law. The Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 clearly provides that the SFPA is independent in the exercise of its functions and as such I...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (14 Dec 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...of Irish waters as necessary. In relation to national sea-fishery protection roles, the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 established the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) as the competent Authority for securing efficient and effective enforcement of sea fisheries protection legislation and the sustainable exploitation of marine fish resources from the waters...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Impacting the Fisheries Sector and Aquaculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (9 Oct 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...and I am fearful for several companies in Killybegs. We really need to get to the point on two different levels. I am not asking the witnesses to respond because I am going to talk about the SFPA and it will have to respond for itself. We must, though, get to the point where the landing rules we have are consistent across the European Union. I have data here from the SFPA. We have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Landings (17 Nov 2016)

Michael Creed: The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is the agency with responsibility for recording landings of fish (excluding farmed fish) into Irish ports. I am informed by the SFPA that landings of fish (excluding farmed fish) into Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centre in 2015 amounted to a total of 45,762 tonnes with a value of €112.7 million. This shows a significant increase on 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...in administration, management and policing of inshore and offshore fishing in Ireland, the total staffing for each agency is shown in tabular form below. Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA): The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is Ireland's competent authority for sea-fisheries protection and seafood safety and carries out a number of functions including protecting and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (13 Jul 2017)

Michael Creed: ...the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006, all operational issues of this nature concerning sea fisheries control are, as a matter of law, exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service.  I am precluded from getting involved in operational matters including in relation to law enforcement. In relation to the access so called...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Landings (21 Jan 2016)

Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 79 and 81 together. In accordance with the Control Regulation EU 1224/2009, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is the competent authority for the compilation of landing data by Irish vessels. I have passed the request to the SFPA who will respond directly to the Deputy. The Irish authorities are not responsible for compiling data on landings or the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...matters for the Irish control authorities. Under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006, all operational issues of this nature are exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. I am expressly precluded from getting involved in operational matters such as those referred to by the Deputy. In order to be of assistance to the Deputy,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Fisheries Protection (9 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: The Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 establishes the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) as the competent Authority for securing efficient and effective enforcement of sea fisheries protection legislation and the sustainable exploitation of marine fish resources from the waters around Ireland. To this end, the SFPA has a Service Level Agreement with the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (26 Apr 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: I am currently considering the designation of further ports for landings by UK vessels registered in Northern Ireland and I have asked the SFPA to examine the possibility of extended opening hours where feasible.  The current ports designated and the opening days and times for those ports were decided to allow for Northern Ireland registered vessels to continue to land into Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Fisheries Protection (20 Jun 2023)

Micheál Martin: ..., and down time for ships' companies. In relation to its sea-fishery protection role, the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 established the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) as the competent Authority for securing efficient and effective enforcement of sea fisheries protection legislation and the sustainable exploitation of marine fish resources from the waters...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Landings (27 Nov 2019)

Michael Creed: ...concerning sea fisheries control are, as a matter of law, exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority and the Naval Service. The issues arising in the administrative inquiry are operational matters for SFPA and, as Minister, I am precluded from getting involved in these matters. The information required by the Commission includes large amounts of primary data. I...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...are matters for the Irish control authorities. Under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006, all operational issues of this nature are exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. I am expressly precluded from getting involved in operational matters such as this. In the context of an Administrative Inquiry conducted under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (9 May 2017)

Michael Creed: As the Deputy may be aware, the monitoring and control of fishing vessels within Ireland’s Exclusive Fisheries Zone are matters for the Irish control authorities.   The SFPA and the Naval Service through the Fisheries Monitoring Centre monitor the movements of vessels when in our Exclusive Fisheries Zone, using the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), Automatic Identification...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (23 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: As the Deputy will be aware, the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 establishes the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) as the competent Authority for securing efficient and effective enforcement of sea fisheries protection legislation and the sustainable exploitation of marine fish resources from the waters around Ireland. To this end, the SFPA has a Service Level...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Annual Report of Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority: Discussion (27 Jun 2017) See 9 other results from this debate

Dr. Susan Steele: I thank the joint committee for the invitation. I will begin by addressing the late submission of our annual report for 2015. In the past the SFPA has been cited as the reason for our failure to meet the statutory deadline for the submission of annual reports. We have taken this matter seriously and are committed to, and have demonstrated, an improvement in our...