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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Processors and Exporters Association, IFPEA. Its representatives have made a very detailed submission to the committee today and will be aware that we have just had an intensive engagement with the SFPA. The EU audit of 2018 was conducted from 2012 to 2015. Apparently, this audit has been leaked to at least three national media outlets. Its implications are very damning to the...

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

Michael Collins: ...my questions to a minimum, in contrast to the last time. I thank all our guests, including Mr. Murphy, Mr. O'Donoghue, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Byrne and Mr. Ward. The representatives of the SFPA, who were before us previously, have said they are consulting the industry. That is not right, in my mind, because of the weighing crisis we have now. At 4 p.m. on 16 April, nobody seemed to...

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

...our fears that 20% of our natural resource would be given away. For this issue to arise on top of that is crushing for our industry. It is hard for our coastal communities. I understand the SFPA has a job to do but we do not agree with the way it is being applied. We have pointed out in our submissions that there must be a procedure here. There must be time to lead into this new...

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...

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

Mr. Brendan Byrne: To respond to the question Deputy Mac Lochlainn asked, in fairness to him, in his earlier question to the SFPA he outlined the robustness of the control measures in place right across the sector. Before I go into the detail of the answer, however, we have to address the reality of where we find ourselves as processors and exporters. Our entire world has been thrown...

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

Martin Browne: ...of justice. I assure Mr. Murphy also, and I would say I speak for all committee members, that we believe the leaks going on are totally unacceptable, especially given the witnesses tell us the SFPA is not even communicating with them. I wish briefly to raise three things. The first is for the Killybegs contingent. They heard the reply we got from the SFPA earlier about the weighing...

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

...was weighed on the pier. Unlike the situation now where the scales have to be provided by the agent selling the fish, at that time the scales were provided by and the weighing was performed by the SFPA because it was part of a stock recovery programme. Other than that, the fish have always been weighed at the point of sale in factories or auction halls. The withdrawal of this derogation...

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.

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

...ask who benefited from the data leaks that were given to the three major news organisations. It certainly was not the fishing industry. I would like to make a point on the weighing system. The SFPA expressed serious doubts about the weighing system in the factories. The type of weighing system that exists in the factories in Ireland is exactly the same as what is in factories in...