Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We will take the learnings back to here. We talked about data collection.

From my knowledge, we may not have applied as many resources as should have been applied over the decades to our marine environment and research and data collection there. We have a considerable amount of interest from wind energy developers who are going to have to carry out environmental assessments or whatever extra type of assessment that may be required by MPA designation, similar to the SACs, where one carries out a more stringent check. Is all of the data being gathered out there done in a standardised format, and is it accessible to the State to build up our body of knowledge out there? People are going out to collect the data but are we co-ordinating that?