Mr. Micheál O'Mahony:

We do not have the answer to that in the absence of the publication of commission audits of the regulators. We can benchmark ourselves fairly well in our food safety controls. Because those audits are published, I can look up the external audits of my French or Belgian counterparts in food safety. We do not have that in fisheries control, however. We repeatedly put on the record that we would support that ability to see where we are. We keep hearing people talk about level playing fields. In reality, some of those people are pointing at the lowest dip and lag in that playing field and telling us all to head down into that puddle and wallow around there. That is not what we want. We want the level playing field whereby fishers experience the same control regime wherever they land or wherever they fish in Europe. In the absence of publication of the audit reports, however, we cannot answer the Deputy's question. We would like to be able to answer his question but we cannot.