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APPENDIX 43

29 May 1990.

Ms. Aileen McHugh,

Clerk of the Committee,

Committee of Public Accounts,

Leinster House,

Dublin 2.

Dear Ms. McHugh,

I refer to the Public Accounts Committee Meeting of 1 February 1990 which dealt with the 1988 Appropriation Accounts for the Marine Vote. I understand that the actual transcript of the meeting may not be available for some time.

I promised however, to provide the Committee with further information on the following matters.

1. Kowloon Bridge

(a)The insurers of the vessel are the London Steam-Ship Mutual Insurance Association Limited.

(b)An offer of £1 million was not acceptable to the Minister as costs amounted to £1.75 million (i.e. £1.31 million for clean up and £0.44 million for removal of oil from vessel). I can confirm that the State legal advisers were consulted and agreed that recovery of these costs, legitimately incurred, should be pursued through the Courts.

(c)The Attorney General’s Office has advised that it is unlikely that the Court would set a date for the hearing before October this year. The hearing itself will be in 1991.

2. Aquaculture

I confirm that my Department received the report prepared by Mr. Aidan Barry of the South Western Regional Fisheries Board entitled “Greening of the Lee”. The report has been discussed by the Department’s Freshwater Licence Vetting Committee and it was agreed that the problem in the Lee is an indication of excessive phosphorous gaining entry to the river. Many sources contribute to the excessive loading — agricultural, domestic, industrial etc. The problem it is felt would be addressed in a Water Quality Management Plan for the Lee and appropriate recommendations could be made regarding suitable areas for phosphorous reduction. The Department of the Marine would strongly support the preparation of such a plan.

3. Subhead B2 — Postal and Telecommunications Services

Subhead B3 — Machinery and Other Office Supplies

I attach details of Postal and Telecommunications and Machinery and Office Supply expenditure as Appendix 1.

4. Sale of Rod Angling Licences

I attach herewith as Appendix 2 details of 1988 sales. Since our meeting my staff have provided you with provisional details of licences sold in 1989. I attach a further copy for your convenience. I will provide final figures for 1989 as soon as they are available.

On receipt of the transcript of the meeting, if any information is omitted or requires further clarification, I would be glad to provide same.

Yours sincerely,

FIONAN S. O’MUIRCHEARTAIGH,

Secretary.

Department of the Marine.

APPENDIX 1

POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES

Item	Expenditure
	£
Postal	24,751
Telephones, Teleprinter, Telegrams & Other Services	229,370
Miscellaneous	49
Total	254,170

MACHINERY AND OTHER OFFICE SUPPLIES

Item	Expenditure
	£
New Telephone System	47,500
Fax Machines	8,000
Photocopiers	18,000
Franking Machines	2,000
Misc. Equipment, Supplies and Maintenance contracts for Machinery and Associated Equipment	70,000
Computers, Associated Equipment — Headquarters	53,867
Computers, Associated Equipment — Fisheries Research Centre	10,280
Total	209,647

APPENDIX 2

Sale of Rod Angling Licences in 1988

Regional Fisheries Boards	A:	£25	B:	£15	O:	£10	R:	£21	S:	£10	T:	£5	P:	£40
Regional Fisheries Boards	Salmon	Annual	Trout	Annual	Coarse Fish	Annual	Salmon	21 day	Trout	21 day	Coarse	21 day	Composite
	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value
Eastern	1,452	36,300	1,225	18,375	540	5,400	49	1,029	59	590	1,665	8,325	544	21,760
Southern	1,099	27,475	402	6,030	66	660	400	8,400	141	1,410	104	520	140	5,600
South-Western	1,189	29,725	433	6,495	2	20	325	6,825	330	3,300	10	50	20	800
Shannon	754	18,850	925	13,875	181	1,810	26	546	152	1,520	547	2,735	148	5,920
Western	806	20,150	123	1,845	16	160	1,048	22,008	234	2,340	120	600	114	4,560
North-Western	1,332	33,300	258	3,870	23	230	629	13,209	256	2,560	33	165	236	9,440
Northern	1,049	26,225	232	3,480	88	880	93	1,953	153	1,530	1,659	8,295	86	3,440
Total	7,681	192,025	3,598	53,970	916	9,160	2,570	53,970	1,325	13,250	4,138	20,690	1,288	51,520

	Foyle Area Extensions X, W and Y						Special Locals				Total
Fisheries Boards Regional	X:	£10	W:	£17	Y:	£30	£21		£5
Fisheries Boards Regional	Trout		Salmon		Composite		Salmon		Salmon
	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value	Number	Value	Value
		£		£		£		£		£	£
Eastern	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	91,779
Southern	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50,095
South-Western	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	47,215
Shannon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	45,256
Western	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	51,663
North-Western	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	62,774
Northern	1	10	71	1,207	2	60	11	231	42	210	47,521
Total	1	10	71	1,207	2	60	11	231	42	210	396,303

Total number of licences sold 21,643

SALES OF ROD ANGLING LICENCES 1989

	P		A		B		O		R		S		T		X	W		V
Regional Fisheries Board	Composite		Salmon Annual		Trout Annual		Coarse Annual		Salmon 21 day		Trout 21 day		Coarse 21 day		Foyle Area ext. Trout	Foyle Area ext. Salmon		Foyle Area ext. Comp.		Special Local		Special Local		Total
	£25		£25		£15		£10		£5		£5		£5		£10	£17		£17		£5		£21
		£		£		£		£		£		£		£			£		£				£	£
Eastern	2,590	64,750	177	4,425	633	9,495	310	3,100	244	2,440	183	915	1,787	8,935										94,060
Southern	789	19,725	700	17,500	149	2,235	48	480	948	9,480	226	1,130	115	575										51,125
South-Western	256	6,400	1,115	27,875	214	3,210	1	10	739	7,390	697	3,485	23	115										48,485
Shannon	1,073	26,825	427	10,675	422	6,330	*99	990	141	1,410	424	2,120	1,387	6,935										55,285
Western	407	10,175	228	5,700	19	270	8	80	1,510	15,100	249	1,245	37	185										32,755
North-Western	1,127	28,175	306	7,650	119	1,785	12	120	1,730	17,300	438	2,190	77	385										57,605
Northern	1,092	27,300	219	5,475	96	1,440	66	660	567	5,670	314	1,570	2,294	11,470		25	425	65	1,105	9	45	4	84	55,244
Total	7,334	183,350	3,172	79,300	1,651	24,765	544	5,440	5,879	58,790	2,531	12,655	5,720	28,600		25	425	65	1,105	9	45	4	84	394,559

Total No. of Licences sold 26,934

* Figures for Coarse Fish Licences are incomplete but are not expected to show any further significant increase.