I remind Deputies we are dealing with items under promised legislation. If we use the time effectively, everybody will get in.

The Irish fishing industry is hanging at the edge at this time due to Brexit negotiations and the British insistence that all EU trawlers vacate UK waters on 21 December 2020. On top of this, we heard at the agriculture and the marine committee on Tuesday there will be a 5% decrease in white fish fleet fishing next year, which will mainly hit fishermen from Castletownbere in the south west. This is on top of successive Irish Governments being unable to get lucrative bluefin tuna quota while our European counterparts are securing ample amounts of quotas.

During negotiations with the Government, I pleaded with the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach, and the Minister, Deputy Ryan, for a stand-alone Minister with responsibility for fisheries, which fell on deaf ears. We are now seeing the total destruction of Irish fishing rights to Irish fish in our sea. In negotiations last week, Mr. Michel Barnier was offering 80% more fish to the UK, which was rejected. Whose fish is Mr. Barnier giving in these negotiations?

I distinctly recall the Deputy calling for a dedicated Minister with responsibility for fisheries. As is so often the case, however, when people call for a new senior Minister, they do not tell us which Ministry should be abolished. Our Constitution says there can be only 15 senior Ministers. This week the Labour Party called for a Minister with responsibility for vaccines and now Deputy Collins is calling for a Minister with responsibility for fisheries. What Ministry will go? Is it education, foreign affairs or health? Nobody ever says-----

What about the office of the Taoiseach?

Perhaps, the office of the Taoiseach. We could have a Government with no Taoiseach, perhaps. I do not know.

The question was whose fish are being sold?

If one Deputy does not have a serious or substantive suggestion then the adage might be, "Call for a new Minister". The negotiations are under way. Everyone knows how the Common Fisheries Policy works. We are doing the best we can to make sure we secure as good a deal as possible for Irish fishermen and for the whole industry. We all know this is a difficult one, however. Some 35% of the fish we take out of the waters come from UK waters. The UK has now left the European Union and is no longer part of the Common Fisheries Policy.

The Government is handing over our fish.