Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Would it be concerning to the Department if one of those proposed designated areas, which I am sure it is well aware of, was off the north-west coast, up near where Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is based, and another one down off the south-east coast, where there is a proposal relating to an area equivalent to 3 billion ha? Would it be alarmed if 30% of our area was going to be protected? Would it be fearful that this would have an adverse effect on the people who fish the area?