Ms Oonagh Buckley:

It is significant because we are a small country. Often times you might have only one of this type of application a decade. I gave the instance of a big development at Dublin Airport where we needed a noise expert. That expertise is either conflicted in Ireland or just does not exist in Ireland so we have had to go wider than Ireland to get in that expertise. Generally speaking, we can find it but it may well be that we have to go outside Ireland to get it. In cases of marine functions, what expertise there is within Ireland may well be working for the applicant and that is going to be something that we are going to have to manage very carefully over the course of the coming year.