Mr. Eamon Dixon:

We just need a viable share. As Deputy Healy-Rae said, and as we said earlier, it is another link in the chain. It takes a lot of things to make up inshore fishing and everybody knows that. It is no one thing. Most inshore boats will do four or five things, if they have to, to diversify between them but we need it to be viable. The share we have is not viable. All the members have to do is look at that presentation we sent to them today from the executive to see the shares that are there. As we said earlier to the chairman, a national school child in second class could look at those diagrams and ask, "What is going on here?" This is not acceptable and it would not be acceptable to them.

I am aware the committee supports us here but it is about where we live and the communities we represent and the members represent, and very proudly as well. However, we do it in a different way as we are fishers in those communities and we want to keep our families in them. As with Deputy Healy-Rae's comment, it is all links in the chain. We hear every day about small farmers, pubs and shops closing in villages. This is all because different links are being lost out of the chain all the time. If we can try to keep those links together that is what keeps those communities going. Inshore fishing is one of the most important links in that chain throughout the country and we just need to make sure it survives.