Ms Maria Graham:

We are looking at that as part of the skills. First, we are looking more broadly at local authorities and their skills and resourcing needs but specifically, for example, the potential within that marine space for sharing of services to do that kind of work for coastal local authorities because, obviously, those do not include all local authorities. As the Chairman said, the frequency of application may be varied. That is one of the areas being explored with local authorities in terms of the kinds of resourcing they may wish to have.

As I said, we are also looking at what resources may be available to the State that could be used and deployed in that fashion without counteracting whatever the purpose of the organisation may be and whether there is some way the existing resources can be shared. That is ongoing at the moment.