Mr. Niall ? Donnch?:

Yes. I do not have the areas in my head. I do not know if Ms Carberry does. There is an SPA designation. There is an SAC designation and there are parklands or farmlands, if one likes. The entire area is not designated. The intention is to carry on that research. One cannot just stop it. Dr. Bleasdale made the point earlier on that if you are farming in a particular way for nature you cannot just stop doing it, you have got to continue doing it. The results that are being yielded in terms of productivity gains, in particular of the sheep that were being farmed on the parts that were being farmed for nature, were stunning. The opportunity that gave the part of the estate that was being farmed to regenerate also hugely impressed our agri-economy team. This is work that we want to build on, not just for the National Parks and Wildlife Service but for the farming community. If we are to engage with farmers around farming in this way for nature, we need first-hand experience of how it actually works. That was one of the attractions here.

The biodiverse nature of the estate was simply stunning. Off the top of my head, there were 57 different species and 14 different habitats. It was absolutely compelling. That is outside the archaeological and built heritage value, which will be united with the rest of the Brú na Bóinne world heritage site. There is already a designation on this, if one likes, given that it is part of the world heritage site.