Ms Patricia Comiskey:

It tends to be part of the monitoring programme. It is dependent on the location and whether there is a particular concern. It is likely to become part of the ongoing monitoring and the licence conditions.

I agree with Mr. Lyne that acoustic monitoring is extremely important and should form part of a State system to collect data and understand the marine environment better. We need to be pragmatic about it. It generates a significant volume data. We worked on projects with the Marine Institute on the Galway Bay test site where the continuous acoustic monitoring generates terabytes of data. We need to be pragmatic about what we want to develop and roll out.