Ms Norah Parke:

I would like to finish up with a couple of points. I came to this meeting today, which was under the heading What it Takes to Sustain a Viable Rural Community. Until I met my colleagues at the door I had no idea that I was coming to a discussion about mackerel. I would have come with a completely different mindset and differently prepared. I would also have made sure that if Deputies or other public representatives from the north west had been invited that they would have attended, or at least given me a good reason why they were not going to attend. I wanted to make these points clear.

I appeal to the committee to perhaps temper its decision with some of the reasoning behind how the existing mackerel allocation has come about. With Sean O'Donoghue's permission I will get some of the documents he submitted to the public consultation, not yet published, and I will make them available.