Ms R?is?n Bradley:

No, what I would say to the Deputy is that there were some discussions about a number of areas around the country where they needed additional resources. For example, we will choose the north because the Deputy has spoken about it. Our corporate plan has placed a focus on development, in particular around the assessment of barriers to fish migration, and other development duties. Because our resources are so stretched, it is difficult to stretch them across protection and development. There were some protection issues that we were concerned about, so we refocused the team. We put in a pilot scheme called a mobile support unit, which put out a call of interest to staff, if they wanted to participate. The idea was that it would be a central mobile support unit that could go to any area in the country that needed additional resources. To be clear; there was no performance investigation into anyone in Ballyshannon.