Fisheries Board Employees’ Jobs
Calleary asked whether the legislation would protect board employees; the Minister said it would improve employment terms and provide permanent positions and superannuation within a restructured fisheries system.
Will this legislation contain provisions for the protection of the jobs of those employed at the moment by the various boards?
Comment on this
The main purpose of the legislation is to provide for an improved financing structure and improved terms of employment for the existing employees of the various boards of conservators, guaranteeing them permanence, superannuation and so on, so that, with an established staff structure and one central fisheries authority, with seven regional boards operating under that authority, one can have a more rational structure of inland fisheries as against the present one where you have 17 boards of conservators, elected under archaic rules, along with the Inland Fisheries, not co-ordinating or co-operating together.
The new structure will provide for what the Deputy envisages along with the other important improvement of getting a public appreciation of the work of such regional boards under the central fisheries board by reason of having a democratic voting system in which the voluntary angling interests will predominate.
