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Thanks very much for that. I now bring in Colin Beattie.

As our witnesses all indicate that they agree with that, Mark, you can go on to your next question.

Thank you for that. I am going to bring Willie Coffey back in with a brief question, which I think is quite useful.

Do you think that we may need to reassess that approach?

It sounds to me as though you see your role under recommendation 9 as being to provide information to the local planning authorities, whose responsibility it then is to decide whether or not expansion can be permitted, based on the information they get. You give them the information that something is going on at the site and it is then up to them.

Just one more?

When you issue an enforcement notice, what is the process? Is there a timeline for response?

When you go to inspect a farm, is it a random check? Do they know you are coming or do you just show up?

That seems a little confusing. The recommendation in the report is

“that there should be a process in place which allows robust intervention by regulators when serious fish mortality events occur.”

Do you believe that you provide the advice there?

Can you tell the committee who Crawford Revie is?