Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have been debating in committee the dreadful Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, for which the Taoiseach signed the statutory instrument and which will lead to penalty points for the fishermen of this country. It is almost a year since the devastating Brexit agreement was made between Michel Barnier and Lord Frost. As of yet, in spite of many visits by leaders of this State to fishing communities to make them promises, not one hour of work has been done by the Government, civil servants and fish producer groups on the critical Common Fisheries Policy. I am asking for a debate on this crisis in the Dáil this week.

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