Mr. Patrick Lyne:

I absolutely support that MPAs, in the first instance, should be separate from wind farms but there must be a realisation that much of the time cable routes from the farms will be, I do not want to use the word "forced", but are going to be forced to run through MPAs. I am thinking principally of the SAC for bottlenose dolphins in the Shannon and the SACs for harbour porpoises off Dublin. We already have a number of cable routes proposed through those SACs and it would make sense to me that the State take control of those surveys and do one survey for all companies and sell the data. I do not know what WEI's point of view on this would be but I would have thought one survey collecting all the data for all potential cables going up the Shannon was preferable. Perhaps it is not so clear in the SAC off Dublin Bay but in the Shannon there will be I do not know how many cable route surveys going up the estuary.