Gerald Nash (Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----were in fact broken by the Department of Justice and Equality, the Department which has been charged by the State to operate the scheme.

I have spoken to a number of decent, compliant trawler owners who wanted the scheme to succeed and who have pointed out the flaws in the scheme to Departments. They want to be able to hire the skilled workers they need to operate their businesses, and they also want to see those who are thumbing their nose at the scheme to be held to account and to be taken to task by the agencies which are obliged to enforce the terms of the scheme.

There is some common ground-----