Written answers

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Inland Fisheries Ireland

Photo of John HalliganJohn Halligan (Waterford, Independent)
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529. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will publish the 2016 to 2021 corporate plan of Inland Fisheries Ireland (details supplied); if he will examine the strategic method of linking traditional commercial fisheries of cultural importance in rural communities to commercial fisheries heritage tourism and education, taking ancient traditions, methods, vessels, knowledge and culture into account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15885/16]

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Section 41(2)(c) of the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 provides that Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) shall prepare, adopt and submit a new Corporate Plan for the approval of the Minister every five years or within six months of the appointment of a new Minister. The draft Corporate Plan 2016 – 2020 has been prepared by IFI and will be submitted for Ministerial approval in the coming weeks.

I am advised by IFI that all socio-economic factors are taken into consideration in the drafting of IFI's Corporate Plan. However, the primary focus of the inland fisheries management regime in Ireland is on conservation and protection of stocks. I am happy to arrange a detailed briefing with IFI for the Minister in relation to the local issues he has raised.

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