Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will come back to Deputy Ferris. I want to raise one point Deputy Pringle made, that the €32 million under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund that is going to be used for enhancing data gathering would be accepted by the Commission. It seems the Commission is the least likely to follow scientific data. To whom do they listen? It is very important that some sort of agreement is reached at Commission level to the effect that, if they are going to accept and fund enhanced data collection, they would accept what the data show at the end of the process.