Dr. Paul Connolly:

We are doing a great deal of work to support the Department in respect of when it builds its case on Brexit. The problem we have is that to build models, one needs to be pretty sure or to have a good insight into the way the UK will play the game. At the moment, that is completely unknown. We are starting from a scenario we call "the drawbridge". They will lift up and there will be no entrance to UK waters. There will be all kinds of scenarios after that. We have a great deal of data we can use and when we get a bit more clarity on how the UK will play Brexit on fisheries, we will be clearer as to what route we should take. It is very unclear at the moment and that goes for all the different sectors that will be impacted by Brexit. It is all parts of the economy.