Mr. Luke Aston:

I thank the committee for inviting me. It is my first time in this House, so I am probably not as used to it as these Donegal lads. I am coming from a tourism background now. Sometimes we are so taken up with angling that inshore fishing sometimes clashes.

I was in commercial fishing all my life until I started this and I agree with much of what the other delegations are saying. One of the things that struck me was the idea of 10 m boats. Based on my experience of fishing off the west coast for 25 years, it is a crazy idea. The difference between a 10 m and a 12 m boat is huge.