Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association

2:00 am

Mr. John Menarry:

From an inshore perspective, absolutely. More quota for Ireland is good. However, for the inshore sector, if we cannot access that quota, what is the point? Why fight a battle if you are not going to gain anything from it? We have enough to do fighting for our members, like we are doing here today. We do not need to do that in Europe. We need to basically fight our own Minister first to get access to what we always traditionally had access to.