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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

...has been important to ensure the highest quality in all scientific and regulatory advisory services. Our role in ensuring the safety of Irish seafood involves supporting the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland by monitoring farmed finfish product to ensure residues of treatment chemicals are below regulatory limits; farmed and wild shellfish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

...responsibility. I thank the Chairman, Deputies and Senators for the opportunity to meet them. We very much welcome and value their interest in our work. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, is the youngest and smallest State agency before the committee today. The 2006 Act established the SFPA with a three-person executive of authority members at its helm, including one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: .... I ask the delegation to outline in more detail how its members police a ship that is processing as its moving and fishing because such ships do not necessarily need to land a catch. Has the SFPA been asked to comment on the Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill? Has the authority made any proposals to the Department in respect of the Bill? There is another Bill entitled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...it was safe to inspect factory ships at sea. Should we have a system of asking the vessels to come into safe waters for inspection? Is it a feasible request? The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, 2014 document that has been distributed to members indicates there were 1,457 fishing vessel inspections. Is there a breakdown of how many of those vessels were Irish and how many were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

Michelle Mulherin: The representatives from the SFPA should elaborate a bit more on its environmental remit and in particular its protection of designated marine areas in accordance with environmental legislation, as Dr. Steele has described. Is the SFPA the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, equivalent of the high seas? What is the crossover and where does SFPA's jurisdiction begin and that of the EPA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

...as a huge risk. We have travelled to meet with the EU Director General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Mr. Machado and the Commission to raise our fears about the risks that are there. The SFPA sits on a number of different compliance committees and with other Community regulatory authorities where we would discuss this issue to try to find solutions to these risks. How do we police...

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