Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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This may be a very obvious question but the area we are talking about is the area we have defined under the Maritime Jurisdiction Act. This is what we describe as our sea area, being seven times the size of our landmass area. Does that put a great deal of pressure on us compared with a country that might have a large landmass but a small sea area in respect of its 30% designations? Will Professor Crowe talk about the contrast between those two and the challenge of trying to do that on such a large scale?