Dr. Elaine McGoff:

I would like to give a positive example. As Ms O'Neill and Mr. Kelly said, we have been on various forums that have been incredibly frustrating, but one that I have been on for at least five years is called the Water Forum. I am on it with Mr. O'Brien. It is a multi-stakeholder forum looking at water quality, and dealing with all of the pressures on water quality. Agriculture is one of those and obviously that is quite contentious.

The value of that forum is that it allows space to tackle the really difficult decisions. We do not shy away from the difficult decisions; we have frequent conversations and there is space to respectfully disagree. I think the reason that it works is because it is longstanding. As I said, I have been on it five years. We all know each other and we have built trust, to build on Deputy Whitmore's word. That is the key here. This is difficult, there is no easy answer here but we need to start having these discussions now. These sort of forums need to be set up really urgently because this is going to be a slow mover and people's livelihoods are at stake. There are going to be very big discussions, and we need to give them a lot of space to happen.