Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate this is an issue for which all sides of the House are anxious to find a legislative fix as quickly as possible. That is also the objective within my Department. I have had considerable contact with my Northern Ireland equivalent, Michelle McIlveen, and obviously this is causing some concern to fishermen in Northern Ireland. It is my ambition to get us to a situation as quickly as possible where arrangements that existed prior to 27 October are reinstated but are done in a fashion that has a legislative framework around them. I will be taking a memo to Government very shortly on that matter and I hope that soon thereafter I will be in a position to introduce what will be a relatively minor amendment to fisheries legislation to facilitate this issue on a stand-alone basis.

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