Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When the officials appear before the committee today, we need to ask them where that strategy is and what they are going to do about it. Who made the decision not to roll that strategy out? If a strategy was announced by a Minister in good faith with the fishing organisations, that strategy should be continued. The purpose of strategies is to plan for the future and to support the industry. To be fair to the industry, it is a very difficult industry and not one that people are queuing up to get into. Regarding the people working in it, it is hard to keep them in it. If what we are seeing continues-----