Mr. John Menarry:

We are in a situation where Iceland is looking to access Irish waters to fish blue whiting. They are talking about trading self-appointed mackerel quotas on the basis that the mackerel is in their waters. If Europe gives access to the Icelanders in exchange for a quota they awarded themselves solely on the basis that there is mackerel in their waters, surely we can make the same case that with bluefin tuna in our waters 12 months of the year, Ireland should be allowed access to quota for fish in our waters. We talked about double standards before. If that is not put right, we are going to have double standards there as well.