The Joint Committee on European Affairs is resumed in public session. We have circulated the recent Green Paper to the IFA, ICMSA and ISA. We propose to also contact FDII. We have received some acknowledgements and responses already. We will have more detailed responses and will hold meetings with the stakeholders in the course of our submission.
Similarly, we need to spend some time on fisheries. Again I remind those members who are present — in particular, the observers — that the committee's responsibility and role is very much in this area. It is of major importance that everybody recognises that it is a difficult area, and a thorough job needs to be done. If a good job is done it will reflect well both on the industries concerned and on the committee and its members.
