Dr. Frank O'Mara:

I thank the Senator for her question. There is no simple answer. There are many actors in the agriculture and food industry and in land use and so on. Our approach is to try to work with as many people as we can and get everybody to at least a relatively common understanding. One thing that will derail progress is people receiving mixed messages. For instance, we have 60 partners in our signpost programme, including other Government agencies. All the dairy co-operatives, meat companies and many others in the agrifood industry are involved. We have reached a common understanding of what can and needs to be done on farms. That is how we work; it is a multi-actor approach. Farmers have a say; it is not us preaching to them. We want to hear farmers' and other actors' views. Often, there is a huge amount of fear about things like this. We talked about rewetting and so on earlier. What might be a brilliant scheme for one farmer to do if they thought they could get the type of money mentioned earlier may cause their neighbour to worry land being flooded and whether their land is going to be flooded even though it is not part of the drained peatlands. There is fear around some of the things we talk about. The only way to work our way through that is by having good, solid information and then pilot and demonstration projects. As Dr. Richards mentioned, there are a number of EIP projects around this area. It is also important we have a multi-actor approach and try to bring everybody with us, rather than people outside trying to undermine because they do not understand what we are doing. That is our approach. Dr. O'Sullivan may speak more specifically about the nature restoration directive.