P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

Is the Taoiseach aware that I had to contact the Department here in Dublin and ask to be transferred to Clonakilty? Is this proper procedure for a decentralised office in west Cork or any other part of the country? Those involved in the fishing industry on the south-western coastline are mesmerised as they are caught between the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister for Transport. Why, in the name of God in his wisdom, did the Taoiseach not create a Minister for the Marine and Fisheries and be done with it? This is an island nation.

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