Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have one finally supplementary question on that. If I remember correctly, when we were dealing with the national marine planning framework, one of the debates we had was on whether the overall policy approach of the framework and all of the bits that fit into it, including marine protected areas, was adopting a full ecosystem and whole site approach rather than just identifying individual species or individual components of the ecosystem and protecting those. From what Mr. Cronin is saying, it seems the approach is a full ecosystem and whole site approach, which goes beyond the legal requirements to protect certain individual species or habitats and considers the interrelationship of the whole ecosystem. I am quite reassured by Mr. Cronin's answers to a number of my questions but I also live in the real world and know that other sections in the witnesses' Department and other Government Departments may have competing priorities that conflict with their own. If their answer to my question on the whole site and ecosystem approach is "Yes", to what extent will that be the approach across all of the different sections in Departments?