Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I listened with interest to the Taoiseach's response earlier in regard to the Common Fisheries Policy and the Government's attitude towards the review of the policy that is coming up in the next year or so. He said he wanted to reset the relationship with Europe in respect of the review of the CFP. How is he actually going to reset that relationship? I believe, and the truth of it can be seen, that Europe stole access to fishing from us as we were negotiating to join the European Union. Is that the relationship the Taoiseach plans to reset, or is he going to go cap in hand to reset the relationship by saying, "Sorry, we were not bold boys and we did not do anything wrong." I wonder which relationship the Taoiseach is going to reset when he goes there.

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