Barring good reason, fishery deal ‘should be made public’
Tuesday 19th July 2011, 2:29PM BST.
DETAILS of any compensation paid to UK fishermen in an out-of-court settlement should be made available to the public unless there is good reason not to, Deputy Matt Fallaize has said.
A deal was reached with the fishermen in compensation for loss of earnings after a States regime to license fishing in the three-to-12-mile zone in Bailiwick waters was ruled unlawful.
The Policy Council is refusing to release figures after the States and Interfish Wirons Ltd – the company that represented the fishermen – agreed a confidentiality clause in their settlement.
Deputy Fallaize (pictured), who is chairing a committee made up of the States Assembly and Constitution Committee, Scrutiny and Public Accounts that looks into governance, reports its findings to the States and makes recommendations for change, has been on a two-week holiday so is unaware of the full details of the settlement.
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Very much looking forward to Matt asking the relevant questions of Mr Trott
e.g.
How much compensation was involved?
Who was responsible for the mistakes in drafting the faulty legislation?
Is that person still on the States payroll?
How much has been spent on pointless appeals before settling?
How can Mr Trott claim it was settled to the satisfaction of the States when probably 90% of members have no idea of the amount paid out?
Does Mr Trott believe that HE IS the States?
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Perhaps he could also ask about the costings re. The purchased oil tankers? Particularly why it now costs over double to transport fuel to Guernsey compared to before. Is it because it would be political suicide for the Policy Council if they made a loss, so we have to pay more to fill our cars so they can say that the ships are profitable.
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thank heavens st Mat is back – we were heading towards the abyss without his wise counsel
so looking forward to listening to him on the radio next week too during the states, so pleased that BBC radio G have given him his own slot. I didnt realise that he was also the shadow Bailiff and shadow procurer – he is so talented and we are blessed, long may he pontificate over us!
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Interesting three minutes at question time in the States this morning
Deputy Gollop asked Deputy Rihoy of SAC if he has any intention or any power to direct Ministers to release details of payments made under confidentiality agreements.The complete reply was ” No”
The Bailiff then suggested that Deputy Gollop might be better directing the question to the Law Officers
HM Procureur quickly offloaded the question to HM Comptroller .. to very loud laughter from the Assembly
Anyone who didn’t know any better would think that the Assembly were fully aware of who was mainly responsible for the fishing limits debacle that has probably cost us several millions
Basically HM Comptoller’s reply was also “No”
So the subject appears to have been nicely killed off in about three minutes.I never thought I would say this but well done to Deputy Gollop for trying.The laughter in the Assembly indicated that most of our other forty odd elected representatives were present but couldn’t give a toss
Something to think about next April
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