Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 22 January 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Impact of Brexit on Fisheries Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. John Ward:

I echo the kind words about our late colleague, Hugo Boyle.

I agree wholeheartedly with what the Deputy said. As far as the producer organisations are concerned, we have no problem at all regarding the request. We are united in trying to do something about this terrible Brexit deal that was given to us. I would go a little further than the Deputy in that the real problem we have is that we are very much the junior partner in a very large Department. Unfortunately, the agriculture element of the Department is very sizeable and very important to the country. While the marine is at the coat-tails of agriculture, we will never get the representation that we require.

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