Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Dominic Rihan:

As the Deputy said, the European Union looks at it as a member state issue. A member state is a member state and a third country is a third country. The European Union also looks at it from a different point of view, more from a competition law perspective rather than as European fisheries law. It is difficult because technically these companies are doing nothing wrong in terms of how they operate-----