Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

For years we were told it was because fishermen were robbing and poaching but that is not happening. It is because we did nothing to protect our climate or our seas. We simply kept giving more and more away to the Spanish because it had better Ministers in Europe than we had.

Fianna Fáil has always maintained it is the rural party. However, it let down the fishermen, the farmers and the country and it has let us down in Europe because it did not negotiate for us.

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