Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Common Fisheries Policy Reform: Discussion with Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
3:20 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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When I was a child the international limits were six and 12 miles. However, when the limit was extended to 200 miles for every other country in the world, we made the extraordinary decision to give our fisheries away for nothing. I stated at the time that it was the wrong decision.