Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)

I appreciate the Minister's honesty. The question is vague because it encompasses three Departments. It relates to funding by the Minister's Department for alternative marine enterprise. I have a letter, which I will give to the Minister, in which a salmon fisherman outlines how he made a proposal to set up an alternative marine enterprise only to be turned down by a partnership company on the basis that it did not fund such enterprises. That is a critical issue. I apologise to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and I acknowledge the sensitivity regarding protocol in the House.

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