Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

It is really a matter for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade because it is an issue about a territorial dispute. Ireland does not claim those waters but we reject the UK's territorial claim. The fisheries issue is that if the UK succeeds in its territorial claim, it will establish a 12 mile zone around Rockall where other European member states cannot fish. I am speaking on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade but I believe I can do so. We do not accept the UK's territorial claim and, therefore, those waters are European Union waters and access to those waters and the quotas are determined at European Union level in the negotiations that happen every December.