Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

I join with other Senators in welcoming the Minister to the House. I congratulate the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, the Minister of State at the Department, Deputy Browne, and the entire team negotiating on behalf of Ireland in the fisheries negotiations in Brussels. They have shown tremendous resolve, persistence and superior negotiating talent in being able to snatch an element of victory from the jaws of defeat in regard to the Irish Box.