Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, the Commission has acted as the grown-ups on the need to be sustainable. When you look at the approach being taken at European level to manage fisheries, we are trying to follow science and make sure we get to a stage where all stocks are fished to sustainable yields. The Commission and the EU have been very responsible and proactive in engagement with other coastal states on the need to follow the science and take proportionate shares of that. I wrote to the Commissioner about that not so long ago to lay out our strong position on that. We are now in the middle of negotiations and hopefully the result will be better than it was in other years but if not, we will take it up again and follow on from that.