Ms Sinéad McSherry:

I have written down a few of the Deputy's questions, and I hope I get to them all. The first question he was asked was in respect of sprat and the introduction of a quota management system. In my statement, I outlined the extant situation, which is that there is no plan at EU level. The policy directive that was subject to the recent public consultation was on trawling inside six nautical miles of the coast. It is a political decision for the Minister if he wishes to introduce a sprat management policy. That can be considered but was not the subject of the recent public consultation, which was on trawling inside six nautical miles of the coast. That is that issue.

On the ICES advice, both Dr. Kelly and Dr. Officer have spoken at length about the process around the establishment of that advice and the time it takes. Science takes time in order to establish those patterns. Irrespective of the genetic system that we spoke about earlier, it will be at least 2027 before that element of advice is available.

The Deputy also mentioned the actions at EU and international levels. The Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, previously spoke to the Deputy about his views on the actions of third countries and their overexploitation of mackerel in particular and of blue whiting. For coastal states, there was a recent proposal from the EU to take emergency management measures to combat that. The Faroese regulation was recently voted on in Council. That is the colloquial name. I am afraid I cannot remember the relevant digits because that was not a matter we were here to discuss today. The regulation is designed to take actions against those countries that do not fish sustainably. That has been moved on by the EU. Politically at the EU level there has been a high-level dialogue between the Commission and Norway. Commissioner Kadis spoke at the Council last week about trying to re-engage on the issue and move that further forward.

The final piece is, as I mentioned earlier, an issue that will be discussed directly with the Minister at the committee meeting of 14 October, that is, the Minister's political view on the EU negotiating on behalf of all member states in respect of coastal state stocks and whether there will be bilateral or trilateral agreements between the member states of the EU and the UK, the EU, Norway and the UK, and the coastal states in general.

They were the issues the Deputy mentioned. Have I forgotten anything?