Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

3:00 pm

Mr. Michael Crowley:

It relates to written legal submissions from the State in the Barlow case. The position of the State, which was the defendant, was that the voisinagearrangement was not an international agreement and that, when properly considered, did not constitute an agreement at all. It stated that, when the three voisinageletters were analysed, they did not disclose the existence of any agreement. That was the State's position in 2012 on whether an agreement was in place.