Mr. Gerard Kelly:

I have sympathy for every fisherman. We are all in a mess, but keeping all of us in it does not help to get anyone out of it. The vessels have a good market in the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, to which they have good access. The United Kingdom will be the envy of every fishing nation after Brexit when the number of fishing licences for UK vessels will increase dramatically. It is already starting to increase dramatically. Perhaps the boat owners in County Donegal who bought the licences should go back and ask the people who told them that it was okay to do so why they had told them this.

I have a feeling that, even up to a few months ago, some people were telling them that it would all be sorted out in this Bill. Some people were taking the Oireachtas for granted.