Ms Sin?ad Loughran:

In terms of current threats, we have special protection areas, SPAs, designated but they are not implemented in full. That is a major concern. Also, the Bill wants to incorporate those areas into our 30% commitment or the MPA network. That is a real weakness if we are not actually implementing those directives. The Bill really needs to outline how it is going to enforce those existing obligations and make sure we are not just putting an MPA stamp on those areas that are not delivering on their commitments at the moment. We do not have management plans for all of our SPAs.