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Seanad: Sea Fisheries: Statements (2 Jul 2025) See 3 other results from this debate

Manus Boyle: ...there. That would relieve some of the pressure. The Department needs to work with everybody too. We need to all pull together and be on the one wavelength. We need to up our game in Europe, we really do. The SFPA needs to help the industry too. Monitors need to go back into the factories. This craic of doing what they are doing is not on. It is really affecting the quality of the...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Review of Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006: Discussion (1 Jul 2025) See 22 other results from this debate

Mr. Dominic Rihan: I will build on some of Mr. Lynch's comments. It is worth saying that our organisations have tried to engage with the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, in the past 12 months. We have had some constructive dialogue with it and it is really important that we build on that working relationship with it for both the regulator and the regulated. I will touch on a few...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...of pelagic species (including blue whiting) greater than 10 tonnes: An Daingean, Baltimore, Castletownbere, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros A Mhil. I am advised that a key component of the SFPA Control Plan currently in force for pelagic landings is that of pre-transport, control-supervised weighing undertaken on publicly-owned weighbridges - which Greencastle port does not have...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Pat Gallagher: ...those are landings that would be landing fish that could be processed for human consumption. I know it is not an issue for the witnesses here as they do not have the responsibility over the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, but there are serious issues there. It was heartbreaking to see earlier in the year when there was blue whiting going directly to fishmeal and it could have...

Fisheries: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Timmy Dooley: ...;ibín talked about the issue in Killybegs with the blue whiting that was processed for fishmeal. This issue has been raised with me on a number of occasions. I have met the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, and the fishing industry there. We have to have regulatory controls in place and these are done on a proportionate basis. There has to be a level of oversight because...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

...the public but the people in the industry know they are not true. Next, things have reached the stage where people say that the Department is not working for the industry. Finally, we have the SFPA. The poor relationship with those three organisations reflects back. The fisherman on the pier who deals with these semi-State bodies has nothing else to presume only that the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (12 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...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. As Minister, I am precluded from getting involved in operational matters including in relation to law enforcement. Accordingly, I have forwarded the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (11 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...Mhara oireachtas.queries@bim.ie Marine Institute ? Oireachtas.queries@marine.ie Sea Fisheries Protection Authority oireachtasqueries@sfpa.ie Greyhound Racing Ireland (Rásaíocht Con Éireann ) oireachtasqueries@grireland.ie Horse Racing Ireland ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (29 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...month at the Quota Management Advisory Committee (QMAC) meeting involving fishing industry representatives from the catching and processing sectors, my Department and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA). The QMAC examines in detail the operation of each fishery, available quota and uptake patterns for the different metiers of fishing vessels. The purpose of these meetings is to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (28 May 2025)

Martin Heydon: The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is an independent regulatory agency as set down in the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006. The SFPA promotes compliance with the EU Common Fisheries Policy, sea-fisheries law and food safety law relating to fish and fish products, verifies compliance and, where necessary, enforces it. The budget allocation for the SFPA for 2025 is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (20 May 2025) See 4 other results from this debate

Timmy Dooley: ...across the EU on fisheries control. The current control regulation entered into force in January 2024 and updates and amends the previous regulation from 2009. The Department is working with the SFPA and relevant Departments and agencies to introduce the required measures to implement the relevant provisions of the updated control regulation at national level. While this may involve...

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 — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (1 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. Accordingly, I have...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Reviews (25 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...) entered into force in January 2024 and updates and amends the previous Control Regulation (Regulation (EC) 1224/2009). My Department is working with the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA), and with other relevant Departments and agencies, to introduce the required measures to implement, at national level, the relevant provisions of Council Regulation (EU) 2023/2842. While...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (25 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...Northern Ireland vessels) must take place at ports designated for that purpose. The lists of these designated ports is available on the website of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) www.sfpa.ie. There are significant practical and cost implications for the State in the designation of ports, in that, for any ports designated, Ireland is obliged to ensure that it has in...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Mar 2025)

Martin Heydon: ...of all fishing vessels within Ireland’s Exclusive Fisheries Zone, and all Irish fishing vessels wherever they may be, are matters for the Irish control authorities, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. However, the control authorities do not have a control remit for third country vessels operating outside of Irish waters. Under the Sea Fisheries...

Importance of Agrifood to the Irish Economy: Statements (20 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...of people. It is in serious decline. A lot of it is our own doing in this State. I would say confidently that the level of regulation and oversight of our fishing and seafood industry from the SFPA is unparalleled anywhere else in Europe. If we look at the landings data, between 2022 and 2024 in Killybegs there was a huge drop in landings, not just for Irish vessels but for foreign...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (5 Nov 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: .... The indicative allocation in the programme for Fisheries Protection, Management & Technological Development, which represents the funding dedicated to activities of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) during the EMFAF programming period is 40 million. EMFAF funding allocated to the SFPA, for the years 2023 and 2024 is as follows: SFPA EMFAF allocation 2023:...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (10 Oct 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...than or equal to 15m and less than 20m) and 10 tonnes per vessel (for vessels less than 15m). The available quota for the Non ring-fenced fishery was set at 300 tonnes. On 7th December 2023, the SFPA advised my Department that the uptake of this fishery had reached approximately 310 tonnes. In light of this, I signed Fisheries Management Notice 78 of 2023 which closed the fishery with...