Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is obviously going back out to Europe to see whether he can renegotiate the quotas but in some of the replies to the questions that have been asked he said that in his opinion no country will be offering any of its quota. Those countries have a deal with which some of them are happy enough. They have a far better deal than what we got. In my view, it should be shared equally throughout Europe but, unfortunately, it looks like this will not be the case. If this is the case, we will be left with a situation where we will have massive job losses. Does the Government have ready-made jobs to replace those we will lose from the decommissioning?