Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is, so I am just wondering why we would double that period now. The regional assemblies were represented at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage. I am open to correction on this, but at the time I did not hear them say that this two-year reporting process was overly onerous. Regarding something as important as planning, when we set these targets, especially those that go from national, to regional to county, I would rather have too much monitoring than have such a large space of time to monitor. I wonder about the rationale for going from two to four years.