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

3:15 pm

Mr. Andrew Kinneen:

We appreciate the situation. What will happen is the legal process, if it arises, will go ahead independently in any case. It is not a question that the offences will not be addressed, in Irish or other Community law. That will go on independently of this.

The consideration of whether it attracts points will have to come into play at some stage as well but there will be a question over them until we have everything, such as the procedures, in place. An individual would be in an invidious position to appeal against our decision, if we have not put up our procedures.