Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations: Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority

3:05 pm

Photo of Martin FerrisMartin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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It is from the last offence; that is the difference.

A point was made about penalty points offences such as road traffic offences. I and other members made the point that a road traffic offence which results in the imposition of a penalty is such that the relevant period commences from the day on which the points are imposed. In the case of fisheries, it is proposed that the period should begin from the date of commission of the last in a series of offences.