Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In the opening statement, the witnesses refer to their frustrations about the length of time this took to address. Would they agree it is peculiar the European Commission had not articulated any issue with an industry-owned system, but suddenly it had an issue? Is it peculiar to it the witnesses that the Commission had an issue after the High Court decision? The correspondence from the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, to the European Commission assures it that it is not industry-owned, but it did not raise concerns prior to this High Court case. Is that peculiar to the witnesses? Where did this come from? This requirement for a weighing system that the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority negotiated does not exist in any other member state of the European Union. Is it not peculiar that the concerns of the European Commission suddenly align themselves with the authority's concerns?