Mr. Niall ? Donnch?:

Dr. Andy Bleasdale will come in on some of this, but I want to address a couple of points there.

There are 87,000 ha covered by the national park and nature reserve network. By definition, significant parts of that national park network are not accessible to the public, nor will they be. We make decisions all the time about extending trail networks, etc. We have made them in Killarney, for instance. We are making them right now in Wild Nephin. There will be areas that the public will not be able to access.

We have no evidence that public access is damaging biodiversity necessarily at any of our national parks. We do not have that evidence.