Fisheries committee to ask for review of Attorney General’s advice

A BACKBENCH committee will today ask the Government to revisit legal advice it received from the Attorney General (AG) on controversial new fisheries legislation.

The Joint Committee on Communications, chaired by Deputy Noel O'Flynn and dominated by FF backbenchers, has consistently criticised provisions in powerful new laws to prevent over-fishing and other infringements in the Irish fishing fleet.

Some of the its objections to the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Bill were addressed by amendments introduced by Marine Minister Pat 'The Cope' Gallagher late last month.