Mr. Lorcan McCabe:

Yes. It is a fair reflection. The structure is working reasonably well now in that every month we hold the Department accountable, as Mr. Bourke said, for the wildlife programme. As I said, staff on the ground is a major problem.

Communication was also supposed to be enacted. We are constantly asking about that. We understood it was enacted, but it is not. The scientific group comes back with recommendations. They are all scientists from UCD and vets, etc. We have no input on that but they are the experts.

On the financial group, as Mr. Bourke said, there has been a break of four to six months because of personnel. I find this to be the trickiest issue because the Department seems to be constantly against us as regards financing. It seems we are to take all the pain-----