Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Earlier, we talked about data collection. Previous surveys were mentioned. The offshore renewable industry has comprehensive, environmental information collection systems. The National Parks and Wildlife Service is doing something probably on coastal special areas of conservation and special protection areas. It also observes the collection of data.

I do not know if this comes under MARA's remit - if all that data is being collected, is anybody setting out that the data sets used should be in some way interoperable so that we can collect all that data and use it and that we do not have a data set collected in one form that cannot be merged with another? Is that being worked on? Is it something that will fall under MARA?