The award of the contract to Brady Shipman Martin, planning consultants, architects, landscape architects, for the preparation of "Coastal Zone Management — a draft Policy for Ireland", main report and discussion document followed competitive tendering by five firms. Under a further contract, in relation to the next phase of the process, that firm is currently compiling a digest of all of the submissions received in relation to the discussion document, for the purposes of making the keynote presentation to a public seminar on coastal zone management, which I will open on 30 March in Jury's Hotel, Ballsbridge.