Mr. Kris Murphy:

The big one, and it is not going to be resolved overnight, is the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959. It dictates a lot of the powers that the lads have. In 1959, we had an abundance of salmon and we are in a drastically different scenario now. It is obviously outdated. There are guidelines, like the guideline I spoke about regarding the water flows and hydro facilities. That needs to be looked at.

If all of the environmental reports and impact studies, as a collective, are now going to be managed to a degree by this new team of IFI, it would be much easier to pool resources and speed up these particular documents because it is quite cumbersome and long. Our Natura impact statement was 100-odd pages. Some of the elements of that can be, if you like, copied and pasted. While it takes something like the Slaney River Trust a couple of years to put together something like that, a team that is specifically put together to handle these projects should be able to process that level of information, whether it is guidance or physically putting together the paperwork. As long as it is collaborative, it should happen much quicker. It is just to make sure that it does happen.