Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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The Minister would agree that any reasonable member state would recognise that Ireland took the biggest hit from Brexit. The burden sharing never happened. We heard that burden sharing might happen but it did not. It is not good enough to say we received Brexit adjustment reserve funding. We have to sustain our industry. We are telling people that they must respect the science. We all agree that we need to sustain our fishing stocks and so we do need to respect the science. We can challenge the methodology but we need some rules. Can we utilise the Hague preferences to mitigate these losses in respect of mackerel? Can they be deployed in that way?