Results 1-8 of 8 for sfpa speaker:Jackie Cahill
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Jackie Cahill: ...off their mobile phones. The purpose of today's meeting is to examine the weighing of fisheries products. The committee will hear from representatives of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA. Since 28 February, the legal requirement of mask-wearing in all settings has been removed. However, it is still good practice to continue to use a face masks or coverings, particularly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Weighing of Fisheries Products: Discussion (18 May 2022)
Jackie Cahill: In fairness, to ask the chair of the SFPA if he has a good working relationship with an organisation is not a fair question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I would like to welcome to the meeting the following representatives of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, Dr. Susan Steele, chair of the authority, Mr. Andrew Kinneen, authority member, and Mr. Micheál O'Mahony, chief scientific officer, who all appearing remotely. You are all very welcome to the meeting this morning. We received your opening statement and it has already...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)
Jackie Cahill: .... This is a hugely important issue for the fishing industry as we saw with the huge turnout at the protest in Dublin last week. On behalf of the committee, I thank the representatives of the SFPA for coming in again and providing clarity on issues raised by the members of the committee. Hopefully an amicable solution to this can be found and that we will not have to revisit the issue. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (11 May 2021)
Jackie Cahill: ...members of the committee. Today's meeting is in two sessions. The first session, from 3.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m., will be an engagement with representatives of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, while the second, from 4.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., will be an engagement with representatives of the Killybegs Fishermen's Organisation, the Irish Fish Producers Association, the Fish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Jackie Cahill: For the first session on the pre-legislative scrutiny of the sea-fisheries (amendment) Bill 2020, the 2020 PwC review of organisational capability of the SFPA and the European Commission's decision to revoke the Irish control plan for weighing of fishery products after transport, I welcome the following representatives of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA: Dr. Susan Steele,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Jackie Cahill: I apologise to the witnesses who have been in the lobby waiting. We have eaten into the hour of their time, but I felt it was important that members get the chance to question the SFPA extensively and I did not want to cut any member short. The witnesses for this session were undoubtedly listening to the exchanges and I hope they found them informative. There was very intensive questioning...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)
Jackie Cahill: They wanted to hear the SFPA first so they could comment on what was said. A number of witnesses want to reply but, unfortunately, I will have to guillotine proceedings very shortly. I will let Mr. Ward in - he has not spoken previously - to respond to Senator Lombard's questions.