Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I am not sure what the figures are, but those boats are subject to monitoring. Ireland has taken an approach whereby quotas are not privately owned and are instead a national public resource owned by the State. Other countries have not taken this approach, though, and over the years, we have seen quotas there becoming privatised into a small number of hands. This has resulted in very large boats having large quotas fishing stocks that used to be fished by many smaller boats. We have taken a different approach and it is one we are committed to maintaining.