Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is not tolerable and it is not being tolerated. It must change. Just being outraged does not change it. We have to work hard to change it. It speaks to how complicated and challenging it is to get agreement at international level on how fisheries are managed. If people do not come together and agree on managing fisheries sustainably there is only one inevitable result, which is the fishery disappearing over time. It is not sustainable, nor is it tolerable. We need to see it change. Every effort I can make and every effort the European Union and the Commission can make will be crucial in doing that. Negotiations are ongoing at the moment.

On the management of our fisheries, within the European Union there is a consistent policy in respect of rules and so on. That is what the December Fisheries Council meeting is about. In the absence of the UK it is what the negotiations with the UK are about. A lot of it happens now at UK level in that regard because we share a lot of stocks. On the stocks we share, we come to a Common Position on how they are going to be managed for the year ahead. Did the Deputy have another point?