Dáil debates

Thursday, 28 March 2019

Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

4:25 pm

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister go into more detail about the issue of registration in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland register? He indicated that to be registered in Northern Ireland one must be assigned to a port there. What does that mean for a boat from the Six Counties in terms of its access to British waters or the six mile zone there? Obviously, the overall number of licences registered in the UK is very high compared with the number registered in the Republic, the North or both. How easy is it for a British registered boat to simply register in a Northern Ireland port and then have access? This would mean that there would be capacity for boats with UK licences, not just those in the Six Counties, to also have access to the six-mile zone. Will the Minister tease that out and explain it a little further? It is an issue that has been raised.

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