Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This would apply to all members within the Common Fisheries Policy. This is an EU penalty points system, so where there are infringements on the part of other EU member states' vessels in our waters and where we are the competent authority, we can issue penalty points and notify their competent authority and their member state and those points would be administered in that member state. It is an EU-wide system.

Because the UK is now outside of the Common Fisheries Policy, and this is an approach of this policy, it does not apply to the UK. One has the same challenge there as one has on driving penalty points on the island where we can apply penalty points within the Republic but not on licences from the UK. It would be much preferable and would meet the objectives in a better way if we can arrange a system-----