Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I believe the implementation committee had three meetings in 2023. Obviously, things would have been impacted by Covid-19 and by Brexit. About this time four years ago we were in the throes of Covid and that disrupted normal strategies and required specific responses. Alongside that, both BIM and the inshore association would have been participating in the Brexit seafood task force as well. That would have been going on during that time. As I said in the opening statement, certainly there was significant disruption to the implementation of the inshore strategy from Covid times onwards. The strategy was due to conclude at the end of last year, there were three meetings last year of the implementation committee, and we are now very much looking towards the development of a new inshore strategy, which would be our second ever. That strategy was our first.