Ms Anja Murray:

Mr. Cillian Lohan is the chief executive officer of the Irish Natural Forestry Foundation based in County Cork. He is also an Environmental Pillar representative and sits on The Environmental Pillar steering group. I have approximately ten years experience in land use policy, studying the implementation of European environmental law in Ireland and bringing this into different sectoral policies. I am also an Environmental Pillar representative on the forestry liaison group and I am active on a European level with BirdLife Europe and some of the coalition organisations. Dr. Alex Copland is a leading expert on farmland birds and agri-environment policy, areas in which he has been working for more than 12 years at national and European Union level. He is a member of the rural development programme monitoring committee, the national rural network co-ordinating committee, the BirdLife Europe agriculture task force and the European Commission advisory group on rural development, agriculture and the environment. Mr. Andrew St. Ledger is a pillar representative on the CAP consultative committee and rural development programme monitoring committee. He is active with CELT, the Centre for Environmental Learning and Training, and a member of the environmental steering committee. Dr. Copland and I also work for BirdWatch Ireland and, as such, we represent a couple of different environmental non-governmental organisations.