Mr. Brendan Byrne:

The EU chief negotiator sold us a pup. He said we would be inextricably linked to trade, which we were until the eleventh hour and then the Irish fishing industry was jettisoned and sold out, not for the first time, whereby we carried 40% of the cost of the overall TCA deal. One member state contributed 40% of the value of that deal. We were sold out. Is it any different now that they have these tools and mechanisms to fight for a member state, to protect a member state and they are not invoking or activating them? It is not. Must this industry in Ireland sit and wait until it is completely destroyed before we shout stop?