Mr. Eamonn Hore:

I will take that, too, and maybe somebody else will want to follow on.

What I have heard today is that we need new research, an assessment and enforcement. You can only enforce what is enforceable. I was looking for the figures before and noted there were 81 farmyard inspections, 21 warning notices and section 12 notices. Aquafact has stated there is what is obviously a very serious problem at the bottom of the lake. The research and assessment could go on but right now we have to do what is necessary to prevent additional nutrients from going into the lake, and that is what was suggested in both the CLEAR report and through what we carried out in the locality work, which relates to all those measures. That needs to happen now. We do not have to wait for research; the research and everything else can go on as it is happening.

There were seven sources of funding mentioned in the CLEAR report, but they are all over the place. How do you bring all of them together? We need one source of funding, entailing an exemplar project at Lady’s Island involving the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We would be happy to work on that. While that one source of funding would be significant, you either put a value on the lake and what is there or you do not. That is my opinion. We applied for LIFE funding before but it did not come through. If you ask me, I would say there should be one source of funding, collected from wherever. I know the problems with that but without doing what I suggest, it is all over the place. That is my view on it.