Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have a number of brief questions. I still do not understand the situation with regard to the fishing licence holder. Under this legislation, the fishing licence holder is being forced to retain the penalty points on his or her licence even if the case is cleared in court. No fair or liberal democracy would allow this. How are we going to vote this into place? Do the control agencies have the power to command the captain, skipper or master of the vessel to act against his or her better judgment aboard a vessel he or she commands? If so, who then has the right to instruct the commander of a fishing vessel, a certified, competent, highly skilled learned person, to act against his or her knowledge, only then to be sanctioned by this system for obstruction?