Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association
2:00 am
David Maxwell (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
Okay. I do not know who came up with the idea that we were allowed no quota, and all these European vessels could come within six miles of our water and fish away. We are tagging these fish for scientific data and Korean and Japanese vessels can mop up everything out there and we do not know what they are taking. From what I am seeing of the fishery, and Mr. Foley's testimony that from 1864, his family - his great-grandfather, grandfather and father-----
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