Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have huge admiration for Professor Tonra. I have no authority to speak on behalf of the fishermen, and while I heard what Professor Tonra said, it is their fishing grounds and their livelihoods. It was a real hammer blow in addition to what has happened in the context of Brexit, as a result of which they lost part of their fishing grounds. It is a positive Irish tradition and part of being a democracy. They could do what fishermen in Russia could not do. Perhaps more was made of it than it was, but that is politics.