Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 April 2021
2476. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an offer for a sea fishing licence (details supplied) was subsequently withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18871/21]
View answerThe Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003 transferred the function of sea-fishing boat licensing from the Minister to the Licensing Authority for Sea-Fishing Boats which operates on an independent basis subject to criteria set out in section 3 of the Act and Ministerial Policy Directives. The Licensing Authority is the Registrar General of Fishing Boats, an official of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine or, under the superintendence of the Registrar General, the Deputy Registrar General of Fishing Boats.
The Act prohibits me as Minister from exercising “any power or control in relation to any particular case or group of cases with which the Licensing Authority is or may be concerned” .
I have made enquiries of the Registrar General who informs me that, relative to the case in question, the offer for a sea fishing boat licence has not been withdrawn.
