Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses and thank Dr. Heffernan for his presentation. Dr. Heffernan mentioned that the Marine Institute does a lot of international work with various agencies from different countries. I expect that Brexit will have an impact on this. What kind of impact does Dr. Heffernan expect it will have? Will it mean that there will be more opportunities, particularly if a lot of this work, we assume, is EU-based and coming from an EU perspective, and that Britain may not be part of that any more?

Second, regarding the EU waters, I am looking at one of the little maps in the presentation with the red shading around Britain. There will be a big hole in it when Britain leaves the EU. It will put everything into a very volatile situation, not only for our fishermen but also for everyone and everything involved in the marine industry. Where will that go? What impact does Dr. Heffernan expect it to have? If he does expect it to have an impact - I am sure he does - what planning is happening in respect of that matter? What measures are being taken to try to assess where we go from here?

That is enough for now. I will leave it at that.