Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Okay, I was just trying to put it in tonnes. I am very conscious that I am caught for time. My last question is slightly off-topic. I apologise for that and, if the witnesses do not have the answer, that is very fair. On our national policy regarding landing fish, we have a national policy regarding fish but, to some degree, you can land the fish wherever you want. You can go to Norway or to Scotland, for example. We do not have a policy as to how much of the quota our fishers land in Ireland. I know that is slightly outside the remit of today's meeting. What I am getting at is that, as regards our quota, we may potentially have more landings outside of Ireland than at Irish ports.
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