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- Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... If he had done that, he would not have made the assertion he made earlier that he has never heard of those publications criticising the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the SFPA. That was an astonishing statement. I can tell the Minister that, from talking to fishermen up and down the coast, there is, sadly, a wall of distrust that has been established over a long...
- Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)
Danny Healy-Rae: ...the Minister to explain that to me. All they are asking is for a period of 60 days to allow a submission in writing to be made to the determination panel from the date of the notification from the SFPA. We could not be more humble or ask for anything smaller than what we are asking for. We are asking the Minister to double the time limit. I do not think it would be the end of the...
- Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)
Michael Collins: ...as the Minister did not accept the previous amendment. This amendment will increase the period of time to 60 days to allow a submission in writing to be made to the panel, from the date of notification from the SFPA. That is not an unreasonable ask. It is just 30 days more than the Minister is giving in the first place. These fishermen are out on the water. Many of them are working...
- Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in the statutory instrument deals with the balance of probability rather than having to prove beyond doubt, which is normally the case where a criminal sanction is being pursued. The role of the SFPA permeates the statutory instrument at all stages, which was the basis on which the Supreme Court struck down the previous statutory instruments. The Minister was against everything that he...
- Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Tell me who I named. The Minister said that I personalise the issue. Who did I name? Did I name any official in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or the SFPA? I did now what the Minister did back then. I believe that the Minister knows in his heart, as Deputy Danny Healy-Rae said, that this is wrong. It is my job as a spokesperson on fisheries and the marine to read The...
- Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)
Charlie McConalogue: ...is not criminal; it is administrative, which is a key point. That is the reason that threshold is being used. Deputy Mac Lochlainn spoke about the culture in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the culture in the SFPA, and he had a real go and personalised it in terms of Department officials. He then tried to tie that around to it actually being me who was saying...
- Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (2 Feb 2022)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...back pretty much verbatim. The Minister has travelled around the coast. He has met fishermen online and in person all around the coast. He knows their views towards the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, which, unfortunately, has been a dysfunctional organisation and is now undertaking reform at last. However, the Minister knows there are protests within the organisation. It...