Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
London Fisheries Convention: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
5:30 pm
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Seventeen per cent.
I want to come back to some other points that were raised. In respect of the Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, the most important point to remember is that the purpose of that legislation was just to reinstate what had previously existed, not in law but in practice, for many years. In terms of the rationale behind that legislation, Senator Mac Lochlainn talked about defending the Irish national fishing industry. It depends on how one defines "Irish".