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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...matters for the Irish control authorities. Under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006, all operational issues of this nature are exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. I am expressly precluded from getting involved in operational matters such as those referred to by the Deputy. In order to be of assistance to the Deputy,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...are matters for the Irish control authorities. Under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006, all operational issues of this nature are exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. I am expressly precluded from getting involved in operational matters such as this. In the context of an Administrative Inquiry conducted under...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Michael Collins: ...sent to us every night that foreign fleets are fishing our waters quite bravely. We are losing massive amounts of quota. Many fishermen are left mystified as to who is protecting them. Is the SFPA on their side? Is the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on their side? More and more calls are being made for the disbandment of the marine section of the Department and for the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...are matters for the Irish control authorities. Under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006, all operational issues of this nature are exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. I am expressly precluded from getting involved in operational matters such as this. In the context of an Administrative Inquiry conducted under...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety (13 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...;Ireland works closely with the EU Commission on the development of European positions on market access and food safety matters and the recent Chinese consultation was no exception. The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is an independent statutory body which has responsibility for seafood safety controls and the enforcement of seafood safety law. The SFPA is the competent...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Bodies (7 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...with the EU Common Fisheries Policy, sea-fisheries law and food safety law relating to fish and fish products, verify compliance and, where necessary, enforce it. The budget allocation to the SFPA enables them to continue to meet its national and EU obligations.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (6 Jul 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...located away from landing ports. As the Deputy will be aware, the Commission has revoked Ireland's current control plan and Ireland's control authority, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA), is preparing a new revised control plan for submission to the Commission. The Commission also presented its annual communication on the state of play of the Common Fisheries Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (29 Jun 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...National Organised Crime vessels transporting drugs to Europe and I offer my sincere congratulations on this achievement. On fisheries matters, I understand the Naval Service is working in close cooperation with the SFPA in relation to a re-emphasis of a risk based approach to fishery protection to better utilise resources - that is, delivering fewer boardings but boardings of a much...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (29 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...in administration, management and policing of inshore and offshore fishing in Ireland, the total staffing for each agency is shown in tabular form below. Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA): The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is Ireland's competent authority for sea-fisheries protection and seafood safety and carries out a number of functions including protecting and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021) See 23 other results from this debate

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...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fishing Industry (28 Jun 2021)

Pippa Hackett: ...for nephrops in the large fishing grounds in the north Irish Sea and may also provide an option for vessels fishing in the Smalls or Labidine fishing grounds. The Sea Fisheries Protection Agency, SFPA, has already undertaken significant work in putting in place the arrangements necessary to provide for the five additional port designations. As the Minister has previously stated in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael Collins: The Taoiseach mentioned the weighing issue and suggested it is the business of the SFPA. The bottom line is that the SFPA and the Minister knew in December that there was a crisis. They did not consult with the industry and they are only doing so now when it is too late. Listening to the Taoiseach today convinces me that the Government does not have a plan for fishing other than to kick...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (22 Jun 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: ...Other Animal Diseases Measures 11,800 C.4 Development of Agriculture and Food 8,350 C.6 Bord Bia* 3,500 D.6 SFPA ** 1,591 * Bord Bia received an additional €3.5m in 2021, which was incorporated by Brexit related and COVID-19 recovery activities into their suite of existing...

Fisheries and Coastal Communities: Statements (17 Jun 2021) See 8 other results from this debate

Charlie McConalogue: ...in the House many times. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority has put a revised fisheries control plan out to public consultation. Following the conclusion of that public consultation, the SFPA will submit a new control plan to the EU for approval. On the situation post Brexit, the interim report of the task force, to which several Deputies referred, was presented to me in recent...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Michael Collins: ...people in this. The Climate Change Advisory Council will be the new Dáil. Move the blame game away. It was the same with the Taoiseach earlier when I mentioned the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, and foreign vessels that are able to come into Ireland and do what they like. He told me he had no control over the SFPA. Of course he has no control because that is the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Michael Collins: ...one crisis to another in the past 12 months, with penalty points, the terrible Brexit deal for the industry and, in recent weeks, the weighing crisis that the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine have known about since Christmas but did not inform the sector of until 16 April. Now we find out that the Department of Agriculture, Food...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (16 Jun 2021)

Charlie McConalogue: ...for the Irish control authorities. Under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act, 2006, all operational issues of this nature are exclusively for the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service. I am expressly precluded from getting involved in operational matters such as those referred to by the Deputy. However, in order to be of assistance to the...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...prevented from fishing in the 12-mile limit around Rockall. Marine Scotland and the British navy has intervened and prevented them from fishing within that area. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, has checked with these fishermen to make sure they are not fishing within that 12-mile limit. The Government states that, having made this agreement in 2013-14, it does not...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Directives (15 Jun 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Denis O'Donovan: ...will not be in the position to meet or to take on board financially. It is ludicrous and I ask the Minister of State to convey this message, not alone to the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, which is the enforcer in this country, but also to the European Commission. As another example, recently in Castletownbere, three large Spanish trawlers landed probably about 100,000 tonnes...