Denis O'Donovan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Last year Ireland used 98% of its quota for monkfish, France used less than 60% leaving 10,000 tonnes of monkfish that it could have caught in Irish waters but did not, while the Irish boats could not access it because of our quota regime. The UK did not use its full monkfish quota. Ireland caught 92% of its quota of megrim, which is a whitefish, in Irish waters - not the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean or the North Sea - whereas France caught only 43%. The French did not catch almost 60% of its megrim quota but our boys are being tied up and criminalised for these offences.