Mr. Niall ? Donnch?:

We do. We have never been prevented from taking a prosecution to my knowledge. I do not know if the Senator was here for the earlier part of the meeting. In the context of interventions around wildlife crime, not everything ends up in a prosecution as such. There may be a more expedient way through local engagement to address what was aberrant in the first case. Quite a few interventions are made by our local team to have damaged habitat restored and all of that. It is not just about the number of cases that come through the courts system. It is about the "stitch in time" kind of intervention that either stops something happening or has something reversed. Our colleagues across the NPWS system have the autonomy to make that. I do not wish to mislead the Senator but where there are cases where habitat needs to be restored, a Minister can issue a direction. There is a form of ministerial direction for restoration where habitats have been restored. If memory serves me correctly, we have issued two of those in the past number of weeks. This goes back to my earlier point. It depends on the nature of the wildlife crime, as it were, and no two are similar.