Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is between now and 2020, until the end of the Common Fisheries Policy. The point I am making is that we want to support the fishing industry in Kilmore Quay and elsewhere, but we must ensure that people abide by the rules. If we do not ensure that and if people consider this a free-for-all, we will simply lose control of the management of stocks, we will have no fishing industry in the future and fishermen themselves will become deeply divided in terms of the way in which quotas are managed and fished. We need consistency here and we are trying to get it in Kilmore Quay. There is a problem in the south east from an enforcement and infringement point of view which needs to be resolved. Public representatives have a responsibility to help in that effort rather than frustrate it.

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