Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-02-17
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Charlie McConalogue (FF), Donegal

Deputy Kenny spoke about bait importation for coarse fishing and I will follow up on the issue. We have many challenging issues as a result of Britain being a third country and outside the Single Market. Many of these issues are not easily resolved if resolvable. I will look into it in detail.
Deputy Daly asked about forestry appeals where we have had significant challenges. We have increased the staff working on this. We have 16 ecologists working on this now where we had only one previously. We have ten additional forestry inspectors to try to deal with the backlog. I also take the Deputy's points about aquaculture appeals and BEEP.

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Sitting date: 2021-02-17