Dr. Aoibhinn N? Sh?illeabh?in:

There was some discussion on that and I took the decision as chair that it was going beyond our terms of reference. We already had 159 recommendations. Going beyond that and slightly outside the remit of specifically focusing on biodiversity seemed to me to go beyond our terms of reference. However, it was absolutely a theme of the work. From the very beginning we had the vision of cathedral thinking. Those who built the cathedrals we see across our lovely country knew they would not enjoy it. They were building it for seven generations' time, for 300 years time. This is what we should now be doing. This is the cathedral thinking that needs to focus on the environment.