Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Over €6 million. We are trying to put resources into the sector and are listening to those involved. We are including them in all of the key decision-making bodies in which they have not been included. As I said, in my Department we have had multiple meetings with representatives of the inshore fishing sector. I want to make sure the sector is viable. Deputy Thomas Pringle has tabled questions on the sector to make sure those involved in it will have access to the north-west herring fishery when it is reopened. We want to keep them in business and make sure they have reasonable incomes and access to fishing opportunities, but we also need to consider imaginative ways to insure against the income losses to which the Deputy referred. Having a mutual fund is a good way to do this and a very cost-effective way for the industry to do it.

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