Mr. Rónán Swan:

If we identify sites under an environmental impact assessment in the course of works we are doing, that is presented to the board and we put in place our mitigations and, in some cases, many sites will have been avoided and, therefore, they are preserved by avoidance. There will be a subset of sites which we will recommend for preservation in situand a subset of sites which will be recommended for preservation by record. Those are sites which we know about in advance. I stress they can be either designated or undesignated sites and they can be sites related to archaeology, architectural heritage or cultural heritage in general. They need not be put in as being a record of monuments and places, RMP, or a record of protected structures, MPS. We can take on board a wide range of them. Once we identify those sites, we would move on to the construction of a scheme and carry out advanced works. To pick up on a earlier point of how we address sites in the areas between sites, in our work we assess 12.5% plus of a scheme. We do a great deal of additional works through survey work, LiDAR technology, trenching and investigation test exhibition to identify as many sites as possible and that helps us inform risk. We often do these works under ministerial direction or with respect to an archeological strategy and we provide that to the Minister, and, ultimately, it would come under an approved road scheme. It is the Minister who will decide whether we should proceed with such developments.