Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)

I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their presentation. I have a couple of questions. I had a quick read of the documents and I was surprised. I had a quick flick through both this document and the Turning the Tide strategy and I was surprised that the inshore fishery was not really explicitly mentioned. I do not think it was mentioned at all in the Turning the Tide strategy, which was BIM's five-year vision from 2021 or 2022. That identified all the different challenges the industry would face. Even within this document, inshore is mentioned specifically only once and only as an aside. Considering the number of vessels in the inshore fishery and the importance of that fishery to coastal communities, I was just surprised to see that there was not more of a focus in BIM's strategies or its documentation on that. I know it is developing a specific inshore strategy but the last one ended in 2023. Could the witnesses give an update on where that is? Looking at the more holistic documents, why is the inshore sector not specifically looked at and discussed and the challenges faced by it looked into?