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Originally posted by TangoSierra View Postau contraire
€14 Million from EMFF 2014-2020 (which there is a risk will not be paid: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/envi...tion-1.4485289)
You'll have to search for EFF 2007-2013 for details on expenditure for that period. Think it came to €64 Million with some €24 million going on Fisheries Enforcement.
Also, bear in mind, this is funding in principle. Ie. there is no guarantee that the Defence Forces money will ever get reimbursed for providing a service that should have been paid for from another Dept's budget in the first place.
Even if EMFF funding is given to cover the cost of the project, there is no guarantee that the receiving Dept will ever hand it over to the Defence Forces.
Several military specific projects have been reduced in scope, delayed, postponed or cancelled because money that was marked for them had to be diverted to fisheries related demands.
€14 m over 6 years out of a ~€1 billion annual budgetLast edited by DeV; 17 February 2021, 08:03.
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Originally posted by DeV View PostThe NS and AC doesn’t get the majority of the budget, SFPA does
€14 m over 6 years out of a ~€1 billion annual budget
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Originally posted by DeV View Posthttps://twitter.com/efca_eu/status/1...096292354?s=21
Chair of SFPA has been appointed to Executive Director of European Fisheries Control Agency
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Originally posted by ancientmariner View Post
That would be a Government appointment to fight the battle created by the SFPA style of oversight, which has created an alleged over fishing of quotas and under weighing of catches. Time to polish brass necks and tacks.
The Agency is governed by an Administrative Board, made up of one representative per Member State and six representatives of the Commission. The Administrative Board nominates the Executive Director for a period of five years. The vacancy notice for the new director was published on 14 July 2020, following a pre-selection by the European Commission, a final short list of candidates adopted by the College of Commissioners was presented to the EFCA Administrative Board. The Board has interviewed the candidates and appointed today the new Executive Director among the candidates.
the Government may have nominated here but she would have been one of a number of applicants
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https://www.afloat.ie/port-news/fish...ndustry-leader
https://www.southernstar.ie/news/breaking-donovan-leaves-sfpa-just-nine-months-after-taking-up-top-role-4237994
udden Resignation from State's Seafood Regulator Questioned by Industry Leader
16th February 2022
Lorna Siggins
A fishing industry leader has questioned the reason for the sudden resignation of a member of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA).
Tim Donovan stood down from the SFPA – the State’s seafood industry regulator - in early February after just over seven months in the post.
Mr Donovan had been assistant director of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), responsible for an area extending from Canada to North Carolina and including the US Great Lakes region.
He joined the SFPA in late June 2021, and was, for a time, the sole member of the SFPA until the appointment of Paschal Hayes as executive chair last December to succeed Dr Susan Steele.
Dr Steele was appointed executive director of the European Fisheries Control Agency in Spain last year.
SFPA staff have been taking industrial action since January over terms and conditions.
In a letter to colleagues, Mr Donovan said he understood this was a “difficult time” for the organisation.
He said he appreciated “the strain this announcement will cause to the organisation”, but he had decided to resign from his position as authority member in discussions with his family.
“The authority position is of great importance to this organisation and deserves a member fully dedicated to the mission and the energy to fulfil the strategic goals”.
“Unfortunately, at this time in my life, I no longer have that energy and the SFPA deserves a more engaged authority member”, he said.
“I have chosen retirement based on my US pension and to spend more quality time with my family in West Cork,” he wrote.
Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation (IS&WFPO) chief executive Patrick Murphy said there were “ questions” to be asked about what he described as a “surprise resignation” by Mr Donovan.
“We have an SFPA which is in the middle of an industrial dispute with its staff, and it is now back to one authority member with the resignation of Mr Donovan,” he said.
“This comes at a time when we have a Naval Service which is not fully equipped to monitor and police our waters,” Mr Murphy said.
Asked to comment on Mr Donovan’s resignation and whether this occurred after a meeting with a senior Department of Marine official, the department said that “the SFPA Authority member concerned tendered their resignation to the minister in accordance with the requirements of Section 47 (10) (a) of the Sea Fisheries Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006”.
Asked if the SFPA had the statutory authority to continue with just one authority member in place, both the SFPA and the department said this was permitted under Section 47 (1) of the SFPA Act (Sea Fisheries Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 ).
“Tim Donovan made an important contribution during his time with the SFPA. The SFPA acknowledges and thanks him for his work to promote and support sea-fisheries protection,” the SFPA said.
Both the SFPA and the department confirmed that an open competition to fill the vacancy would be advertised by the Public Appointments Service shortly.
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SFPA Organisational Capability Review
A Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) review of the SFPA finalised last year found that the authority was “not working effectively” and required “urgent attention”.Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) staff voted “overwhelmingly” late last month for industrial action
SFPA in WRC talks
It is understood that SFPA staff believe they are being blamed by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine for the under-reporting.
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For anyone interested in operations of FMC
This course for EU fisheries monitoring centres’ operators on vessel tracking systems is a training manuscript. It can be used by EU Member States competent authorities and the European Commission for the training of their staff. The objective of this course is to provide an overview of the wide variety of systems and tools used in a Fisheries Monitoring Centre (FMC) and to demonstrate how they are used to gather and manage operational data, information and possibly intelligence. The course will then show how this in turn is used to direct the control and enforcement assets in the most efficient and effective manner.
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A civilian EU agency DA62 aircraft is now carrying out fishery protection patrols in Irish waters, flying out of Cork airport.
In addition to the EU civilian ship Lundy Sentinel which has been carrying out fishery protection patrols in the Irish EEZ for some time now, I believe there are plans to bring in two additional civilian ships in the new year for fishery protection as the Naval Service are cutting patrol days because of the crew retention crisis.
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