Written answers
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Fisheries Protection
11:00 pm
Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the status of an application (details supplied) for compensation under the second round of the fisheries decommissioning scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11553/06]
John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The applicant referred to by the Deputy has been advised by BIM, which is the implementing authority for the scheme, that his application did not meet the mandatory eligibility criteria on its initial assessment. The applicant was also advised that his application would be reviewed in the light of any further supporting data regarding eligibility supplied.
BIM has advised that the vessel does not meet one of the key mandatory criteria for the scheme, which is that eligible vessels must have carried out a fishing activity for at least 75 days at sea in each of the two periods of 12 months preceding 1 October 2005. The 75 days at sea criteria is set down in EU regulations which govern the decommissioning of fishing vessels with public funds. Neither BIM nor the Department has any discretion in applying these regulations.
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