Mr. Aodh O'Donnell:

As I have pointed out, this is a soft deal. This benefits other EU members much more than Ireland in terms of the reciprocal access arrangements they have. Ireland for its part gets a small percentage of the arctic cod quota - less than 280 tonnes per year. This compares to an overall access arrangement for Europe of up to 9,500 tonnes or 10,000 tonnes annually. Ireland pays the price in terms of access and gets very little by way of benefit.