Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Island Fisheries (Heritage Licence) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

3:30 pm

Ms Norah Parke:

Mr. Percy referred to the quota belonging to large fishing companies. In Ireland, the fishing industry belongs, by and large, to family business. There are no big companies overriding everybody. It is almost all individual small family-owned businesses.