Mr. Paul O'Brien:

I thank the Deputy for the question. I will answer one of the questions and then pass over to my colleague, Mr. Buckley. On our interaction with the Department, we have had meetings with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and we have had meetings with the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Ultimately the National Parks and Wildlife Service under the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage will be implementing the nature restoration as it as it is. There have been good interactions during this process of gathering information. The problem we have is that if this is signed into law in Europe, the direction of travel would be that we would have agreed to something without having had the impact assessment done. We will not know. Officials from the Department have met us, but they are gathering information just like we are trying to gather information. More needs to be done for this to be proven once and for all because the knowledge deficit at the moment is so great.