Mr. Michael Keatinge:

I am not sure that is comparing like with like. What the Commission is failing to tell the Deputy is that, in some countries that do not have a development authority, for example, they took all their funds and put them into their FLAGs. In Ireland, we took our funds and distributed them through a set of recognised programmes. We have had fleet safety, fleet modernisation, processing measures, and assistance throughout a whole range of areas. They have been done outside the FLAGs. We have had relatively modest funds allocated to the FLAGs, which is not to say that was all of our funds. If the Deputy looked across all of the programmes we have run in the areas of sea fisheries, aquaculture and onshore processing, it would be clear that we have created considerably more than 20 jobs. They are saying that Ireland gave a small part of its total fund to FLAGs and then judging that number, 20 jobs, against another country that gave most of its fund to FLAGs because it does not have an equivalent of Bord Iascaigh Mhara, BIM.