Minister of State at the Department of the Marine Tony Killeen said the outcome was positive compared to the position facing Irish fishermen at the start of the talks.
The issue dominating the meeting from an Irish perspective was the fallout for mackerel fisheries following the break down of the EU Norway talks last week.
The European Commission was initially recommending a 50% cut in the mackerel quota in order to preserve stocks, pending a resumption of talks with Norway.
The quota has been raised to 65% of this year's quota for Ireland, on the basis of further talks with Norway in January.
Each year the EU and Norway agree on how much both Norwegian and European vessels can catch of migrating mackerel stocks in each others' waters.
In advance of a resumption of EU Norway talks the European Commission was recommending that the UK and Ireland offer 10,000 tonnes of their mackerel quota to Norwegian vessels.
This was opposed by the Government and the Irish fishing industry, who argued the 2,000 tonne Irish segment would have cost the industry €2.5m.
The Chief Executive of the Irish Fish Producers Organisation, Lorcan O Cinneide, has said the fisheries deal agreed in Brussels was a lot better than the one proposed and was the best agreement that could have been reached.
Elsewhere cuts to other quotas were not as deep as expected.
Instead of a 30% cut in Ireland's prawn quota the cut will now be 9% for next year, while a proposed cut of 54% off the north west coast was reduced to a 25% cut.
A proposed 20% cut in cod was dropped and there will be a roll over of the 2009 quota.
The Celtic Sea herring quota was raised by over 70%, monkfish is up by 15%, Hake up by 7% and Irish Sea plaice is up by 14%.
