Ms Caroline Bocquel:

Just to talk briefly about the mussel seed. When I was here in June I said we were optimistic of finding seed. BIM's role is just to survey for that seed. It was found. We were delighted about that but, as Ms Morrissey said, two non-native species were found, both of which, unfortunately, were species of national concern. BIM's role then was to convene a meeting of the alien species working group. As Ms Morrissey said, there has been a tremendous amount of work done on that point, but it is a very important regulation in protecting all the other species growing in the bays, and we certainly cannot risk there being any issues with that. That risk assessment is done and, as Ms Morrissey said, we are just waiting for a determination on it.