Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am new to this role in the last two or three years. There are fishing representatives whose livelihood this is and who have years of expertise. There are fishing representatives who have been in the industry for 30 or 40 years. I brought everybody together to assess what is the best possible strategy and the strongest possible leverage that we can bring to the table. I felt that was the way to ensure we most strongly assert our national position. Having brought all of our key influencers, thinkers, representatives of our fishing sector and our fishers across the country together, that is the approach and strategy that we are going to adopt and which I will be following.