Mr. John Lynch:

Last year, there was an issue with the Commission, which has yet to be clarified. The Commission maintained that the threshold where the Hague preference came into effect was 10 tonnes. A Hague preference of 10 tonnes is pointless. Any paperwork or documents that I have seen have the Hague preference for sole for Ireland in areas 7f and 7g at 194 tonnes. When our share went below 194 tonnes, we should have been invoking a Hague preference from then on.