I am really concerned, whether or not the Parliamentary Secretary is aware of it, that the repeated screening on television of the map of delineation of claims of the 200-mile limit which is really around our north-eastern shores by the British means that off the Donegal coast if we take away Inishowen Head, Shrove Head and the mouth of the Foyle there is not anything left there. We do not seem to have any waters left in so far as the Foyle, Shrove Head, Inishowen Head and Malin Head are concerned because of the delineation that has so often been publicised by the British on their television screens. What are we doing about it?

This is a technical and local question. I would like to have had notice of it. I do not think it is covered by Question No. 4. I am not in a position to discuss the Foyle specifically or any other situation.

It infringes on our national rights. The Foyle is part of our national rights, as are all of the seas around the foreshores of the country.

If the Deputy is talking about the Foyle estuary——

I am not particularly. I am just instancing this to the Parliamentary Secretary in order to highlight what is so obvious in what has been publicised repeatedly, and I believe deliberately, on the BBC television screens.

I can assure the Deputy that what the BBC do is not law and will not affect the outcome of an arbitration or anything an international court may do.

This is not a matter of arbitration. There is no question that any counter-claim is being made by the Government.

If the Government were to make counter-claims for everything they saw on television or any of their members or supporters saw on television we would not have time to do anything else.

Arising out of what the Parliamentary Secretary says——

I want to get on to another question. Question No. 5.

I cannot be held responsible for not being able to hear what is going on up here in this alleged amplification system, which I have complained about repeatedly. It is no better than it was. Nothing has been done about it.

The Deputy is dead right.

Deputy Callanan agrees with me. It is dead when anybody speaks from these things here. It is all right from the front benches. Have the Government abandoned the claim to the rights of the seas around this island or have they not? The issue is as simple as that.

The Deputy will understand that the factual situation is that the soveriegn power, rightly or wrongly, for better or for worse, for the moment anyway, on the east bank of that river is a different State.

I am not talking only about the river.

I am afraid we cannot resolve this matter.

With your permission I wish to raise this matter on the Adjournment due to the absolutely unsatisfactory nature of the Parliamentary Secretary's reply.

I will communicate with Deputy Blaney in that matter.

Perhaps the Deputy would also communicate with me because I do not know what he is asking for.