Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vessels decommissioned under the recent post-Brexit decommissioning scheme; the size of each vessel in length; the rated power of each in kilowatts; the tonnage of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21409/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Brexit Voluntary Permanent Cessation Scheme was open to licence holders of fishing vessels that are registered on the Irish sea-fishing boat register in the polyvalent or beam trawl segments, held a valid sea-fishing boat license issued by the Licensing Authority for Sea-Fishing boats at the date of application and vessels which were 10 years or more in age at the time of application.

Of those who were issued with letters of offer, 42 accepted and are due to proceed with decommissioning their vessels at a total cost of €64.15 million. The total capacity associated with these 42 vessels is 6,870 gross tonnes.

While the offers made under the scheme have been accepted by the vessel owners, these individuals still have to comply with the terms and conditions of the offer and complete the decommissioning process. As the majority of these vessel owners are yet to complete this process and receive all payments, it would not be appropriate at this point to offer any detail or individual vessel characteristics which may result in the identification of individual applicants.