Mr. Michael Keatinge:

Fisheries in Ireland represent about 3% of the European fisheries in terms of numbers employed. It is a relatively small part. Countries such as Greece and Italy have huge maritime fisheries sectors and, compared to them, we are actually very small. Again, it is important to compare like with like.

If I look at a range of initiatives even in County Donegal, in terms of the jobs created by the new investment in Killybegs, I could list jobs. Mooney's boat yard in Killybegs is part of an emerging industry. We have not built boats in Ireland for 25 years, since BIM went out of the boat-building business. We are not building the hulls in Ireland because it is more cost-effective to build them abroad, but the new boat for Clogherhead was delivered into Killybegs last week to be fitted out with the engine and the interior. All the hard, labour-intensive work is being done in Killybegs, where there are now about 25 people involved in boat building that were not there before.