Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Landing Obligation Update and Fishing Fleet Management: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

1:30 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I have shown the Senator some latitude. On the point as to whether it is a safety and modernisation request, using the example of the replacement of a timber boat by a steel vessel with greater interior capacity, surely there is a way of adapting the boat to restrict it to the same capacity inside while making it safer. Surely skins or liners could be put inside it to deal with that issue. It seems to me - and I know nothing about fishing-----