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. Hugo Boyle:

That may be something for the future, but we are talking about the Bill. Ring-fencing was acknowledged in the Bill, where section 2(6)(e) refers to "the introduction of a non-transferable community island quota". This means that what Mr. Murphy is suggesting cannot be done at this time.