Ms Roni Hawe:

Programme D does not just cover the six fishery harbour centres. Of the expenditure in 2021, more than €20 million was invested in the strategic development of those harbours. As Mr. Gleeson stated, there were a couple of projects relating to additional quayside space. There are larger trawlers coming in to land now. We are trying to attract additional landings not just from the Irish fleet but also from the fleets of other member states and elsewhere to attract more raw material for the processing sector and to drive the downstream and ancillary jobs in those coastal locations. More than 80% of fish landings in the country are coming in through those six front doors. They are doing a very effective job at what they were set up to do.