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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Gabhaim míle buíochas le Mr. Murphy. Mr. Lynch has two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Thank you. We will do another round of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Mr Byrne's question, which was a rhetorical one, was on where Ireland was in those discussions. Where have the State and successive Governments been in any of these negotiations? I am hoping this committee will charge the Minister to discover, for the first time, a voice at these negotiations and to bring a level of ambition and assertiveness into them. In the final round of questions, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I will cut across Mr. Murphy. Deputy Ward asked a specific question so I will put that to Mr. Murphy or to one of his colleagues to answer because we have two minutes left on the clock and then we have to begin the second part of our meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We have to end this part of the discussion, as we have the second part of the meeting due to start in a couple of seconds. On behalf on the committee, I thank Mr. Murphy, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Byrne, Mr. O'Donnell and Mr. Rihan for their presence, contributions and responding to all our questions. I also thank them for sharing their opinions and those of their members. We will take those on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Before we begin, I want to bring to everyone's attention, as per usual in these meetings, to the fact that witnesses giving evidence from within the parliamentary precincts are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. That means that witnesses have a full defence against any defamation action for anything said at a committee meeting. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I am sorry to cut across the Minister of State, but we are under time pressure. I am going to allow Deputy Whitmore to come in. We may have an opportunity to pick up some of these points at the end in another round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I call Dr. Kelly briefly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire Stáit. I call Senator Boyle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We will have another round. There will be time but I want to be fair to Deputy Ward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire Stáit. Earlier in the meeting, before our witnesses were here, I gave the apologies of Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, who is Vice Chair of this committee. He is attending a meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in London and cannot be here. He did ask me to put a number of questions to the Minister of State on his behalf. The first relates to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank the Minister of State. I have a couple of questions of my own. Part of the rationale behind this meeting is to challenge the Minister of State, mandate him and charge him to go to these sets of negotiations regarding Norway and other third states, but also to the December Council, and for the first time in my reading of these things have an assertive and ambitious approach to these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I appreciate that the Minister of State is in the process of putting together that negotiating strategy and building that support within the Government. This committee is an active one and our schedule between now and the December Council is full. I would welcome it if the Minister of State gave a commitment to give a briefing to members. Perhaps we could meet and receive a briefing on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I will go to Senator O'Reilly for the last word and then back to the Minister of State to wrap it up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I will allow it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. Táimid thar am. Time is up. In fact, we are a little over. I thank our witnesses, the Minister of State and the officials from the Department, BIM and the Marine Institute for being with us. I thank members for the questions and the good conduct of the discussion. It has been an interesting meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Mr. Murphy has his hand up. I do not know if it is in response to that question or a previous one. Does he want to come in on that?