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"Madam President, I have to say that I think that the comments of the Minister were absolutely pathetic. Words, fine words, platitudes, essentially – a string of platitudes pulled together, and absolutely no programme of action at all. This is not a new issue. This has been dragging on since 2009. It has been raised successively with one Presidency after another. I raised it with the Minister herself six months ago, personally, in Dublin. And yet here we are with nothing. We are hearing comments that this is all going to be dealt with in the context of the common fisheries policy reform. We have just heard from our own rapporteur, and I get the impression from her that it has hardly been placed on the table. It has just not entered into the negotiations in any substance at all.
Let us just remember: these long-term management plans are essential if we are to secure a sensible reform of the CFP and to put in place sustainable policies. Since 2009, the Council has been blocking the approaches of this Parliament in terms of trying to put in place those plans. So it is now obviously up to the Council to take the initiative to try and find a resolution to the problem.
My colleague Pat the Cope Gallagher suspended and released our blockage of the technical measures resolution earlier this year because Simon Coveney and the Irish Presidency had given us assurances that negotiations would take place. I will not say that Simon Coveney lied to us, but I do feel deceived. I do feel that the Irish Presidency has shown nothing but bad faith. I think that there was a breakdown in trust.
If we are to release documents, if we are to vote for things because we are given assurances by the Presidency, then I expect the Presidency to come back and deliver. After three or four years of negotiations, we do not even know what the exact points of difference between the Council and Parliament are. It is time that the Presidency simply convened a meeting, sat down round the table and agreed the points that must be discussed, that must be agreed upon, and then started to negotiate."@en1
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