Mr. Richard Cronin:

Regarding our concern about starting to make a list, when we did a long piece of work on this, we had a long list of things but the more we put on the list, the more we found things we did not put on the list. What we would rather do is make that prioritisation list in the policy statement and then collect those species, habitats or ecosystem services like carbon storage - ecosystem features - in the identification piece. That allows us to have more participation. Were we, as the officials, just to make our list of what we wanted to protect, we would be excluding a lot of the participation piece.