Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have not. There has been good, constructive engagement with the Scottish Government, to be fair, over the last number of years on this issue. Actually, it was the last British Government that did not facilitate an agreement on research and so forth that had been arrived at between the Scottish Government and the Irish Government.

We have reactivated that with the new British Government and with the new Scottish First Minister and there is ongoing engagement with officials on both sides with a view to arriving at an agreement that can then be green lighted by the UK Government in Westminster. That is the sequence and process by which it has to be done. We are, however, very mindful of the situation pertaining to fishermen in the Rockall area more generally.

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