Ms Sin?ad McSherry:

In terms of changes to the relative stability key, which was Deputy Mythen's first question, any of those would have to be agreed. It is a long process to change any relative stability key. As the Deputy will understand, any state that holds a significant share would be reluctant. For example, Ireland holds 50% of the mackerel share in north-western waters and would resist extremely vigorously any attempted change to that by another member state. In terms of bluefin tuna, it is a process. The Minister has engaged continuously in that process. It would have to be by agreement.

On the Deputy's question on the 40 species we share, I think what he said was that we are giving them away to international waters. How we fish them is within a number of agreements that involve third countries, not only European member states.

The Deputy's last question was on the bilateral negotiations between the EU and Norway.

I do not know off the top of my head how many meetings took place. I would be happy to find out and come back to the committee on the number of interventions.