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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
...accuracy of the reporting. The control authorities also work together through the European Fisheries Control Agency to co-ordinate their activities. All the operational aspects are done by the SFPA. I cannot discuss that in detail, however, because it is the authority's independent role to perform the operational aspects of law enforcement. A review is under way at European Union...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
Dr. Cecil Beamish: The SFPA reports to this committee and the Houses of the Oireachtas on this matter and produces an annual report which includes statistics on inspections, irregularities, etc. The annual report is made to the Oireachtas and all this information is available publicly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
Thomas Pringle: ..., the Department is not interested in how fishing is policed, whether it is accurate or what is caught by other European countries. All of that is up to the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
Dr. Cecil Beamish: No, there are different roles and responsibilities. The control framework is agreed at European level. The operational implementation of that is carried out by the SFPA in Ireland. It makes its reports which are freely available to the Oireachtas and so forth. All of that is absorbed as part of the data flow. Discussions are ongoing at the moment in relation to a new...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
Thomas Pringle: In terms of fish caught in waters around Ireland, the SFPA polices the Irish boats but who polices the boats from Spain, Belgium, Portugal, the UK, Germany and so on? Those boats catch fish in Irish waters but land their fish in their own countries. Is the Department happy that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
...fleets that have access would take the balance. There is some access for Norwegian vessels in the blue whiting fishery as well. Control at sea is carried out by the Naval Service working with the SFPA while control on land is carried out by the SFPA. The Commission then inspects all of that control effort. It does the same in the other marine exclusive economic zones. The Commission...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
Pat Deering: This committee has highlighted these issues previously to the SFPA. The authority will be before us again towards the end of the year and we can highlight them again at that stage. Is Deputy Pringle happy enough with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 May 2018)
Thomas Pringle: Does that mean that there would not be time to invite the SFPA to come before us?