Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion
Tim Lombard (Fine Gael)
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From the Minister's point of view, these states are outside the European circle in many ways. We are dealing with sovereign nations, as the Minister previously stated. We do not have any real power in trying to enforce powers on Iceland, the Faroe Islands or Norway. How confident is the Minister that we can have an agreement on this? We are helpless.