Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Not necessarily. It is a report with recommendations. The committee members get an opportunity to present their report with a list of recommendations and get feedback from the relevant Minister or Ministers. The idea would be that we would concentrate on an outcome, namely, to get agreement to set up an implementation body or whatever with the involvement of two or three members from this committee, people from the representative organisations in respect of the area the report references, and officials from a number of Departments to go through the report recommendations to see what can and cannot be implemented while being mindful of the policy within the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP, which is very important because it gives an imprimatur to everybody to act upon it

That will be vitally important in terms of giving us some weight behind what we are trying to do.

We will discuss this in more detail as a committee. I am conscious that we are in public session, and I am not trying to turn this into a chit-chat, but it is important that we got the feedback from the witnesses. It was to make these reports, and the recommendations contained in each of them, relevant, to get people focused on them and see what we can do to implement them.