Ms Sin?ad McSherry:

To respond to the Deputy, Ireland does not have a quota. I will defer to my colleague, Ms. O'Sullivan, in terms of some of the background on this issue but those quotas were set. There is a relative stability key. Any change to that will be within the EU. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, ICCAT, set the quota and the EU has its relative stability share within that. As I said, the Minister has been speaking to and making moves to try and reopen that relative stability key. The quota that Ireland hopes to gain will have to come from another European state.