Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)

I thank our witnesses for coming in today. I am trying to get my head around that information as there was a lot of it in the opening statement and the discussion that followed. It is within the remit of the Government to address the mackerel and herring quotas.. It is not a competency of the EU and the Government does not need to go back to the EU to redistribute those quotas. NIFA had access to larger quotas of mackerel and herring. When and why was the decision made to switch?