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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...references in the opening statement to the weighing equipment and the methods of weighing fish in the factories by the sector. Will the witnesses talk me through the process and the equipment the SFPA, as the regulator, uses for the weighing of fish in order to do checks and so on? I would be interested to hear that. One of the functions of the SFPA, as stated in the opening...

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...need to look after it. We cannot neglect it. I implore the Minister, the Government and the State to step up to the mark. Another point made at the protest related to the outrage at the removal of the control plan. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Agency, SFPA, came before a meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine and failed to answer questions on the removal of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...the decision of the Commission on the revocation of the control plan. He has explained that the Bill does not allow him to do that. What can he do? Earlier this week representatives of the SFPA informed the committee that it would be a minimum of two months before it could introduce a new control plan. Surely the Department has a role to intervene. At the moment the piers do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I refer to interim financial supports. As I noted, the SFPA stated it would be a minimum of two months before a control plan could be brought for the white fish and shellfish sector. Does the Department have a role in helping the sector to provide interim measures for weighing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...and Exporters Association to be presented to the committee at our next meeting. It states: A subsequent Administrative Inquiry was required by the EU Commission to be carried out. The SFPA undertook this inquiry during 2019. Again no input was sought from us as a sector. Does the SFPA accept, therefore, that the reason we are here relates to a consistent lack of consultation with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I will give Mr. Murphy another chance to take the floor so he can continue his soliloquy in a moment. I know most of our guests were probably tuned in to the previous session with the SFPA. There is an opportunity now to answer, clarify, or correct some of the statements made by the SFPA, or agree with them, whichever way you want to look at it. Deputy Collins touched on the fact that the...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...one is the need for sufficient separation between the policing authority and the determination panel. The fact that the determination panel is selected by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, is insufficient separation. This needs to be addressed. The determination panel could be selected by the Attorney General or by the Minister. I now turn to my second issue. I have...