Ms Ciara Carberry:

Bord na Móna is in my mind at the moment because it is so involved in our peatlands restoration work. A huge amount of work has been done on raised bogs and now there is a big focus on restoring blanket bogs as well, particularly on designated sites. The NPWS has been constrained by being a minnow relative to some of the other bodies in resourcing and our capacity to recruit specialists to talk to us. That atmosphere has shifted now. As Dr. Lynn said, these bodies generally are coming to us and looking to work with us. I do not wish to speak on their behalf at all but it is very clear that they are much more focused on developing their own nature-positive pro-biodiversity plans and strategies. Part of our engagement with them is to try to make sure that those align with the national priorities for nature restoration rather than maybe what an organisation sees as its priority. There is a challenge. It has been very constructive. They seem very genuine in their engagement and willingness to resource-up. Coillte Nature is one example but other organisations are the same. One of our goals was to be a trusted voice for nature and an authoritative voice that people would see as neutral, science-based and trustworthy in that space and we are moving into that space. We have long tail of history behind us and we have a lot of challenges in front of us. The national biodiversity action plan will be testament to that because all those organisations are right there in its pages and have come forward. Apologies for singling out those two. They are just in my head as being the most recent that appeared at a table I happened to be sitting at but there are a huge number of partners. Dr. Cooper might be able to speak to the number in there.