I must insist that we adhere to the one-minute allowance for a question and answer.

The Taoiseach will have seen the trawlers across the water as he came to the convention centre today. There are fishermen and fishing families from all over Ireland here today. We have 12% of the waters of the European Union and we get 4% of the fish, one third of what we really should be getting. This costs us tens of thousands of jobs across coastal communities and hundreds of millions of euro. The injustice of the Common Fisheries Policy has been going on for years. The Taoiseach talks about resetting the relationship. Will he go to our European partners and demand the fair share of the fish in our waters for our fishing communities, particularly after the injustice of the Brexit deal when further cuts were made to the quota? Will he stand up for our fishermen and demand our fair share of the fish in our waters?

Ar dtús báire, caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuilimid ag tabhairt lántacaíochta d'iascairí na tíre. Tá an Rialtas taobh thiar dóibh. Beidh mise ag déanamh gach iarracht chun na deacrachtaí agus na fadhbanna atá acu a réiteach. Cuirfear níos mó infheistíochta isteach san earnáil agus tabharfar cabhair do na hiascairí de dheasca an Bhreatimeachta agus a thorthaí.

The Government stands in support of the fishers of this country. We understand the challenges of the Brexit deal given the fact that nearly one third of our catch up to that had been in British waters. In our view there has been a disproportionate burden sharing in respect of the Brexit deal and we will be pursuing the rectification of that in the context of the Common Fisheries Policy review of next year, but also through the Brexit adjustment fund to see how we can support fishers in the immediate future. We catch about 40% of the fish in our waters, which is about two thirds of what we catch overall.

The time is up.

A no-deal Brexit would have been very difficult and the Brexit deal we have creates a capacity for us to try to seek to retrieve some of what has been lost.