Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 and Fish Quotas: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Hugo Boyle:

Boats that are registered in Northern Ireland have a distinct advantage. I refer to Deputy Gallagher's statement about people in his constituency.

It is a distinct advantage, both financial and otherwise, to have extra quotas. Control is possibly not as good. As far as regulations of boats is concerned, I use the analogy of NCTs.

On the Common Fisheries Policy, I concur with Mr. O'Donnell that hopefully we will have a strategy with the four fish producers' organisations and the National Inshore Fisheries Forum, NIFF, and the whole industry to prepare ourselves for when negotiations start in 2020 and conclude in 2022, which hopefully will be after Brexit.