Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Killybegs is an important anchor for our maritime sector. The SFPA is independent of the Government, but it sounds like the Deputy has raised an important matter. I will ask for an update on it. My departmental officials have put a great deal of work into this section because the issue had been raised by the sector with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We knew that we needed to make progress on the matter in the context of Brexit's impact on the sector. That is why we made the decision to deal with this maritime matter in this Bill. We would not normally do that and would instead wait until budget day. However, we appreciate that this issue is important to the sector. In that spirit, I will try to find out a little more about the issue that the Deputy has raised.