Mr. Kevin Brady:

It will be a very big body of work to undertake and to establish if we are to do this by region. If the scheme is extended, it will depend upon the timelines of the survey.

Putting things in context, we have been looking at this scheme since the end of the year 2021. It took two to three months to produce this report, from start to finish and that was very intensive. We were relying on volunteers, as every member who filled out the information is a volunteer. To extend the scheme, if the parameters are extended and if we have to look at regions, we will need to consider how long that will take but there will be a significant body of work to be done. Hundreds of hours were put into this report in analysing and in collecting data. It took two to three months for this current report but it depends on the parameters of any extension to the scheme or to its terms of reference.