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

Mr. Patrick Murphy:

To clarify, the four POs have open membership. Anybody can join any of the POs. It is a right to join. The vessels control the POs, not the other way round, and any vessel specifically in our PO, from the smallest vessel to the largest vessel, has equal rights when it comes to discussing any issue whatsoever with us.