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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Michael Collins: ...sets of figures, which is astonishing. There are two different sets of figures in the one country. One set is what processors say are derived from the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority's, SFPA's, sampling system, which regards each sample as a representative extrapolation of the entire catch. The newspaper article continues: The system operates either on the pier on landing or - if the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: ...when the Common Fisheries Policy was established. On oversight in each country, and particularly Ireland in terms of weighing and the policing of those quotas, oversight is carried out by the SFPA. Ireland has a legal structure in terms of the role of the Minister and the SFPA. Under the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006, I, as Minister, am specifically and legally...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Michael Collins: ...do this. We can question but the Minister can give instruction under section 46 of the 2006 Act, where it states that the Minister has the power to give general policy direction in respect of the SFPA's functions. Section 42 also states that one of the functions of the SFPA is to advise the Minister about policy and effective implementation of fishery laws. This is not effective...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: ...with regard to fishing allocations and maximising fish quotas for next year. The Deputy mentioned the Act, which I mentioned before, and how the Minister provides general policy guidance to the SFPA but what the Deputy is talking about here is operational. That same Act precludes me from being involved in operational matters. It would be worthwhile for the members of the committee to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: ...it is within the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy. The Common Fisheries Policy is not based on the size on the boat but on restricting the amount of fish any country can catch. We talked about the SFPA earlier and other countries also have their oversight and enforcement authorities and have rules and regulations in place to make sure no one is catching more than their quota. Those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Charlie McConalogue: ...we see better catch in the long term but it has led in recent years to a narrowing of the pie, as such. In regard to monitoring and control, the large boats, as well as medium and small boats, are subject to the SFPA, but also the European Fisheries Control Agency has jurisdiction across all European waters as well. Regarding the six-mile inshore limit and the larger vessels coming in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Johnny Mythen: ...boats into port for a week, its owners would not be long changing their tunes because of the cost involved. Let us be honest about this. The Minister mentioned quotas, but no one, not even the SFPA, knows what these boats’ quotas are.