Mr. Michael Desmond:

There was no voice before that, and we are finding it increasingly difficult. We are voluntary. I want to be at home fishing today, not up here. It is the same with these lads. We have other things to be doing. The other POs got help with funding and so forth when starting. Again, it is down to the interpretation of EU law. Spain gave €8.4 million to its POs upfront to be used according as they wanted it. We got nothing. We are three years as a PO now, and we have a secretary at home doing up what we spent in the past three years to get a percentage back three years later. We are doing everything out of our own pockets. Then, when we get the percentage back, we are expected to stay going. We contacted the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley about this, and he is writing to get it, but they are saying it has nothing to do with the EU and that it is the Department of Finance that is stopping us from getting funding upfront.