Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know but if I go back again, five years ago a number of the biggest fishing operators in the State were found to have falsely reported the size of catches but we were told files would not be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions on that occasion. We were also informed the value of the fraud they were suspected of perpetrating would not be calculated. If that happened five years ago, surely alarm bells must have been raised within the Department that if this continued, there would be repercussions. Why was action not taken by the Department? It was the funding agency for the SFPA.