Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If there was a proposal whereby a pot was made available on a market price that was bigger, would this meet some of the company's needs around being able to compete? Obviously Iasc Mara Teoranta is going to have to compete on price. For a long time in Killlybegs we had a problem whereby fish being landed in Scotland and Norway was being processed there. We were constantly told by the Department that it was the market and that boats are entitled to go wherever the market takes them in respect of processing. This was the difficulty for many years. Is there a form of proposal that could meet Iasc Mara Teoranta's needs other than an allocation of quota and around the amount that would have to go onto the open market so it would actually meet the company's needs?