Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach will have seen the trawlers across the water as he came to the convention centre today. There are fishermen and fishing families from all over Ireland here today. We have 12% of the waters of the European Union and we get 4% of the fish, one third of what we really should be getting. This costs us tens of thousands of jobs across coastal communities and hundreds of millions of euro. The injustice of the Common Fisheries Policy has been going on for years. The Taoiseach talks about resetting the relationship. Will he go to our European partners and demand the fair share of the fish in our waters for our fishing communities, particularly after the injustice of the Brexit deal when further cuts were made to the quota? Will he stand up for our fishermen and demand our fair share of the fish in our waters?

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