Mr. Richard Cronin:

We already have a national marine monitoring plan that has been running since 2013. This is under the marine strategy framework directive. The monitoring of marine protected areas will be a monitoring subprogramme under that plan. This monitoring programme covers litter, noise, pollutants, the intensity of fishing activities, the state of biodiversity and other matters. The status and health of these designated sites will fall under that programme. That monitoring programme is funded through our Vote and the Votes of other Government Departments and agencies that have specific responsibilities. There is also EU funding for things like the data collection framework for the Common Fisheries Policy. That monitoring framework is already in place. If we need to increase the amount of monitoring on these sites, we will have to provide for that through our wider monitoring plan under the marine strategy framework directive. Article 11 is the specific piece that creates this obligation. It is important to include it under that because we then have a wider framework of all the monitoring we do, which puts this monitoring in context. If there is a problem with the status of the site, other monitoring, such as the monitoring of pollutants and human activities, will help us to identify the cause of that problem. We have that other wider monitoring network. That will be resourced as well. The second part of the question was about-----