Mr. Seán O'Donoghue:

There was no mention of decommissioning at that meeting with the Taoiseach and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We left the Taoiseach in no doubt that we need to get our fish back. We are not just saying that today. We made it clear to him on 28 December. My colleagues can confirm that he gave us a commitment that it would not be our first and last meeting and that he would work with us. We called it a really bad deal. The Taoiseach did not put it in those terms but he recognised that there is a significant problem for our industry and gave us a commitment that he would work with us to address this. I was of the impression, and if I am listening to what the Minister has said prior to this, I believe they have been making interventions in terms of burden sharing. It needs to be upped a notch. We really need to bring this to a level whereby the EU will begin to understand that unless it is addressed come hell or high water, there will be significant consequences in terms of going forward with relative stability keys.