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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

Dr. Susan Steele: I thank the committee members. The SFPA is the independent statutory body responsible for the regulation of the sea fisheries and the seafood production sectors. It promotes compliance with the EU Common Fisheries Policy, sea fisheries law and food safety law relating to fish and fish products, verifies compliance and, where necessary, enforces it. As a State agency, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Butler: ...non EEA crew members, thirty-nine (39) had the required letter of approval and ninety-five (95) did not. In line with the MoU, details relating to these non-EEA crew members were forwarded to the SFPA for onward transmission to the WRC. That is exactly what it states. I call Mr. Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

...going on board or coming off the vessels while we are doing a landing inspection. We believe that the checks are more amendable to verification at sea. We have had two cases reported to the SFPA, one on inspection and one whereby an individual reported to the Howth office. We will have passed those reports on to the relevant authorities as per the memorandum of understanding. We would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

..., Cork. This fisheries monitoring responsibility is carried out as part of a service level agreement between the Department of Defence, the Naval Service and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA. The FMC carries out monitoring and surveillance of all vessels equipped with a vessel monitoring system, VMS, that are operating in the Irish EEZ and also of all Irish vessels operating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

Gerald Nash: ...of his work and that of his inspectors and others engaged on behalf of the MSO, he would encounter information from organisations like the Naval Service, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, the Revenue Commissioners, An Garda Síochána and others that would be relevant to the operation of the scheme. From the get-go, the MSO resisted membership of the implementation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)

Mary Butler: I welcome Dr. Susan Steele, chairperson of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, Mr. Micheál O'Mahony, authority member, Ms Margaret Stanley, PO in the Naval Service section in the Department of Defence, Commander Martin McGrath, Naval Service, and Mr. Brian Hogan, chief surveyor at the Marine Survey Office, to this meeting on non-EEA crew in the Irish fishing fleet under the...