Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

951. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 26 September 2023, if, now that the process of payments to the owners of fishing vessels being decommissioned under the Bord Iascaigh Mhara permanent cessation scheme is complete, he can provide the list, by vessel name, owner, size and quota and amount of compensation per vessel as previously requested, in tabular form. [48540/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I am advised by Bord Iascaigh Mhara, which administers this scheme on my behalf, that a number of vessel owners are yet to complete the process and receive all payments. It would therefore not be appropriate at this point to offer any further segmentation, detail or individual vessel characteristics which may result in the identification of individual applicants. I can, however, provide the following update.

In March it was announced that 42 vessels had accepted offers made under the Brexit Voluntary Permanent Cessation Scheme. The vessels that accepted offers comprise a mixture of prawn and whitefish trawlers, seine netters, gillnetters, and beam trawl vessels, spread around fishing ports along the coast.

Of the 42 vessels that accepted offers under the Scheme:

• 39 vessels have proceeded with their application.
• 3 vessels have withdrawn their application.

• 35 vessels have been decommissioned.
• 4 are currently being dismantled and will be completed in November.