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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...and follow-through on the Report of the Seafood Task Force: Navigating Change, which outlined 16 support schemes with an estimated cost of €423 million to assist the seafood sector and deal with the impact of Brexit, especially in respect of the inclusion of a temporary and permanent cessation scheme for the fishing sector, capital investment schemes for the seafood processing and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (2 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Department officials are making to resolve the jurisdiction conflict over Lough Foyle with the British Government; if he is aware that this unresolved conflict has led to a large and unregulated aquaculture sector along the Inishowen banks of the lough; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5466/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...designation of MPAs. We suggest that, as well as possessing the expertise set out under this head, the Minister would be required to ensure that the expert body includes representation from environmental NGOs, the fishing and aquaculture community and the offshore renewable energy industry. We also suggest that the committee consider, as well as providing for a secretariat, that funding...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (31 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ..., external events, longer term supports will be focused on allowing the Inshore sector to become more resilient and sustainable. This will be achieved through the €258.4 million European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture, or EMFAF, Seafood Development Programme. EMFAF supports the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the EU Maritime Policy and the EU agenda for international...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Dr. Tim O'Higgins: There are several management authorities managing different activities within the marine environment. There are aquaculture sites, offshore renewable energy developments and dumping at sea. There are already different management authorities. Under this legislation, recommendations will be identified first. Measures that need to be taken by actors or sectors in the...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Government to finally act by allocating at least €12 million in funds to inshore shrimp and velvet crab fishermen from the €258 million available for the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund. We are asking the Minister to give the fishermen money today. Backbenchers support the Minister and said he is great. Is he going to give the fishermen money? Will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...its recommendations, the Task Force suggested longer term supports and investments beyond the lifetime of the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, which would utilise funding from the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF). In December 2022, I was pleased to announce that the EU Commission had adopted my Department’s EMFAF Seafood Development Programme which will facilitate...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...a number of such initiatives and I have recently engaged with BIM on exploring new product opportunities for the Mackerel Hook and Line fishery. BIM continues to assess how European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) supports can be designed so that appropriate groups or organisations can seek support for such initiatives. While the drive for decarbonisation is set to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...number of such initiatives and I have recently engaged with BIM on exploring new product opportunities for the Mackerel Hook and Line fishery. BIM continues to assess how European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) supports can be designed so that appropriate groups or organisations can seek support for such initiatives. In the Programme for Government - Our Shared Future,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Industry (18 Jan 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licence appeals that are on hand for over one year by the Aquaculture Licences Appeal Board; the number on hand for more than three years; if he intends to review the operation of the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board in view of the inordinate time that it is taking the board to make decisions; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (18 Jan 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...of services to the inshore fleet including advisory services and stock conservation supports. With this Programme approaching its conclusion, I was pleased to announce a new Programme under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) was adopted by the European Commission in December 2022. Under this programme a new range of schemes will be developed to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (15 Dec 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: Producer Organisations are officially recognised bodies established by fishery or aquaculture producers in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 on the Common Organisation of the Markets in Fishery and Aquaculture Products (CMO Regulation). Recognition can be achieved through a relevant group applying to the national competent authority which, in the Irish case, is my Department....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Funding (14 Dec 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: The Seafood Development Programme has been developed to implement the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) 2021-2027. The Programme has been co-funded by the Government and represents a €258 million in our seafood sector and marine environment. It has been developed in the context of Union Priorities established by the EMFAF regulation (Regulation (EU) 2021/1139)....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Dec 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...projects, marine infrastructure and developmental support for seafood enterprises and coastal communities. With EMFF drawing to a conclusion, my Department developed the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) Seafood Development Programme which will succeed the previous programme and provide ongoing support to fishers and the seafood sector up to 2027. This is a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...points from the Commission and I will go through each item in turn. The Commission provided information on its forthcoming initiative on the energy transition in the EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors, which aims to set out concrete actions to help the sector in the energy transition in the short to medium term and towards 2050. I am supportive of this initiative and it is similar to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (8 Dec 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...relation to financial supports, my Department's European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) 2014-2020 programme has made public funding available for the sustainable development of our fisheries, aquaculture and seafood processing sectors. This Programme has been providing a range of financial supports to our inshore fishing sector for capital investment on board and ashore, for training...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...;   The scheme in progress include  a series of schemes aimed at creating jobs in the seafood sector and in coastal communities, including the €45 million Brexit Seafood Processing Capital Scheme, the €20 million Brexit Sustainable Aquaculture Growth Scheme and €25 million Blue Economy Enterprise Development Scheme. In total, €225m in supports and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Quotas and Decommissioning: Discussion (7 Dec 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

...The Germans, for example, have four times the processing capacity of Ireland at 2.4 million. One Dutch company's combined consolidated turnover is in excess of the total Irish turnover, including aquaculture, and, therefore, we are losing out. We have the most productive waters in Europe but if we do not get quotas or manage the access, we are on a downhill slide. We need to lift our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: EU Legislative Proposal on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence: Discussion (7 Dec 2022)

...;150 million worldwide turnover and 500 employees. But there are lower thresholds of €40 million worldwide turnover and 250 employees in particularly environmentally sensitive sectors such as mining, aquaculture and so on. There are uncertainties about the practicalities of how this will operate and what a director and a board need to think about in practical terms in order to...