Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 245 of 4 February 2021, if he will communicate with the Department of Transport that advised in a subsequent Parliamentary Question that it has no role in providing financial compensation to the fishing sector and that such matters are within the remit of his Department and that the person concerned should make contact with his Department to pursue such matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23149/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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This case refers to a private commercial transaction between two contracting parties to purchase a vessel. Issues arising in relation to that transaction are civil matters between the parties.

Issues related to vessel stability and maritime safety regulation are wholly matters within the remit of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. My Department has no function in regard to those matters.