Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 454: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the 2007 Poseidon report has been implemented. [26290/09]

Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 455: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all 55 recommendations of the Poseidon report have been implemented. [26291/09]

Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 456: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost to the State of implementing the Poseidon report. [26292/09]

Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 457: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost of the closed circuit television as recommended as 12 in the Poseidon Report for 2009. [26297/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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I propose taking Questions Nos. 454 to 457, inclusive, together.

A review of the fishery control regime in Ireland was undertaken by Poseidon Aquatic Resource Management Ltd in 2007 who subsequently presented its findings and recommendations to the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, who held responsibility for fisheries at that time. The Minister wrote to the Chairman of the newly established Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority and instructed him to proceed with the implementation of the recommendations of the report.

It was originally envisaged that an Interdepartmental Group would be established to oversee the implementation of the report's recommendations but this Group was not put in place. The report was and is essentially an internal document for the fisheries control agencies, outlining best practice for the delivery of an efficient and effective control regime within allocated resources.

The Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 clearly provides that the SFPA is independent in the exercise of its functions and as such I have no remit as to its work programme, its deployment of resources, or its operational activities. Consequently, particular queries regarding the specific aspects of the SFPA's work programme should be directed to that body directly by the Deputy.