Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Inland Fisheries Ireland: Chairperson Designate
11:00 am
Terry Brennan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I wish Mr. Gorman well in his new role.
On my colleague's last point, it is said to think that in 2015 we still have 42 towns in which effluent is being discharged into harbours, the sea and rivers. Forty years ago, when English and Scottish angling tourists came to my home town of Carlingford and stayed for one week to fish the lakes of counties Monaghan and Cavan, the benefit to the local economy was enormous. This has not happened for the past 30 years and I would love to see it happening again. While I do not know why it is not happening, there is a major opportunity to attract angling tourists from England and continental Europe. Mr. Gorman might comment on this. What should he do in order that, following his tenure, he will be able to say he achieved his aims?
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