Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

Plainly the Deputy has not read the Bill. There is no proposal to put councillors on the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland. I have made five appointments already and the Oireachtas committee will make the balance of those appointments. There is absolutely no intention to have councillors travelling to any meetings of Inland Fisheries Ireland. The Deputy's assertions seem to be based on either ignorance or misunderstanding of what is in the Bill. The Bill is about Inland Fisheries Ireland. We are getting rid of all of the local fisheries boards that were there before.

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