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

Let me push it one step further. That transparent scientific exercise then identifies an area that clearly requires a high level of conservation activity, yet somebody somewhere may then say that is all very well, but there are imperative reasons of overriding public interest that require us to disregard that. That is the bit that, legislatively, is going to be quite tricky, especially in the context of different Departments that have different mandates and different pressures. Has Professor Crowe thoughts on that part of the legislation, without dragging him into political considerations, but just from the area of his own scientific expertise?