Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The new inland fisheries legislation contains a compulsory angler registration charge for every single angler in Ireland. I suppose we could describe it as the rod licence mark II. I would have thought the Government was making enough mistakes, without following on the mistakes made in the past. The Trout Anglers Federation of Ireland does excellent work and its members are up in arms about the proposals made in this legislation. This is a very important issue and we are trying to keep anglers going, not put them out of business.

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