Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I asked about the environmental issue because it is listed here as one of the four major points in the 1 June 1996 agreement. That was the support of environmental protection and the sustainable management of natural resources. They are of key importance to the development of Vietnam because it has such fantastic tourism potential as its natural environment is so diverse and wonderful. Hence the dynamiting of fish in Halong Bay is unacceptable. It was ordained by UNESCO when it was granted world heritage status that this practice of dynamiting fish would cease, but it certainly had not ceased when I was there.