Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for that. I have read sections of the report, including its executive summary. The report was commissioned in 2006 in advance of the ban on drift net fishing. It anticipated that there would be a large surplus for distribution, but that surplus has not arisen. For the first couple of years after the 2007 enactment of the drift net ban, our river stock increased. Unfortunately, there has been a reduction since then. The figures that I cited-----