Ms Patricia Comiskey:

This is something that I and my peers in other projects have talked about quite considerably. Our challenge at the moment is, as Mr. Goodwin has mentioned, that we are collecting data at risk, and for a particular process, to inform our own environmental impact assessment reports and to inform our own appropriate assessments. In many cases we are collecting data for sites much larger than the site we are planning to develop on because there is no national data set. The intention is, obviously, that these are data we will need to share between the projects in order to inform on, in combination with the cumulative impacts of projects. Also, in the absence of any other data in the national system, it becomes the only data set there. One will find that if a particular species or habitat is identified in that area it does not necessarily mean that it is the only one in that area. It is just the fact that we have looked there. The intention to share data is certainly there within the industry but it needs to be done at an appropriate time that does not in any way impact on our ability to move our own processes forward, and so it does not point to a particular sensitivity that may just be there because we identified it and not because it is a particularly sensitive area for that site, if the Deputy understands me.