Mr. Daniel McLoughlin:

Staffing and resources are not an issue. We have had success in those areas. We got the financial allocation and went to the employment market and hired good people in the last 12 months. We have been fortunate in that regard. Ms Farrelly alluded to something that is really important. All of these cases require extensive environmental analysis and extensive ground ecological and archaeological analysis. It could be something as simple as a bat survey that must be carried out in summertime. If you cannot get someone to do that, you lose a year. That is how significant it is. Winter birding is another area. The amount of construction work ongoing across the country and the scope for engaging ecologists and specialists in these areas is limited, to a degree. It is more a case of watching that than what is in-house. That is important in terms of the need to supplement in-house resources with external consultants and how the lack of availability of one or all of those particular disciplines could trip you up in the completion of an environmental analysis or strategic environmental assessment.