Inland fisheries legislation
Deputy Feighan asks when legislation modernising inland fisheries law will appear, after condemning attacks on Northern representatives. The Tánaiste has no exact publication date.
As Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, I also condemn any such attacks. I am very proud to be Chairman of this committee. We work together very closely across party lines. This Government will continue to act impartially to try to implement all aspects of the Good Friday Agreement.
On the issue of fishing around lakes, rivers and canals, we must modernise existing legislation. When will the inland fisheries modernisation and consolidation Bill come before the House?
Comment on this
I do not have an exact date for that. In response to Deputy McDonald's query about when the first meetings with the new British Administration would take place, I do not want to anticipate outcomes, but from everything I read, the results will be very tight, so I do not know when that administration, of whatever political colour, will come into being. However, we have a very close relationship with the British Government, as Britain is our nearest neighbour, and I anticipate that we will be having meetings with the new administration very shortly after it is formed.