Mr. Seán Kirwan:

That would have been drawn from our own wreck inventory that we maintain and make available online on our website. That material is there. One of the innovative aspects of the proposed legislation will be trying to integrate the protection of wrecks with the protection of monuments. Since 1987, when we had the first legislation to protect our underwater cultural heritage in Ireland, these two streams of the dry land monuments and the wrecks have run separately.

We are bringing "wreck" into the definition of monuments so it can be included. There will be a statutory inventory but a wreck can also be brought into the register of monuments as well as having automatic protection. We are hoping to streamline and bring it in. To answer the Chairman's question, yes, those data are coming out of work that we have carried out.