Ms Tara McCarthy:

With regard to the Seafood Development Centre, SDC, one of our big challenges is ensuring engagement from the industry. BIM has commissioned an internal review in the past three months which my colleague, Donal Buckley, is leading. We want to redefine how innovation is looked at by the seafood industry. Building on what Mr. Michael Keatinge said, innovation is too often simply described as adding a sauce to a product and seen as the production of a ready meal or something like that but that is not what it should be. We are seeking to reinvent the culture of innovation in our industry where we would be associated with the much more traditional approach to our product development rather than being best in the class. We are seeking to benchmark BIM and the industry on where the flows of innovation and the white spaces of innovation are on which we should be working much more closely with industry towards further investment in our gear technology and helping the industry to adapt that technology. That is no point in us doing great research and nobody using it on boats. It must be relevant to the challenges our industry is facing. It is a challenge that we as an organisation and our industry are facing up to where we believe, as I mentioned in my presentation, the four pillars are linked. We believe innovation is key and engagement from industry will come, but it will only come if we support it through our education and training. What we need to do and are mapping to do in our schools in Greencastle and Castletownbere is layering an understanding of the need for innovation into our basic training, and we have young people in our schools. In that way we are training our industry to appreciate the business challenge that lies ahead. We are looking at the innovation element of getting industry engaging with the SDC, whether it be in Letterkenny or in Clonakilty, as a longer-term challenge rather than a six-month challenge, but we are mapping the engagement levels all the time. My colleague, Mr. Michael Keatinge might deal with the National Inshore Fisheries Forum, NIFF.