Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My last point relates to something that was not touched on at all. On the final part of the appendix, the NTA has a role in regional planning guidelines, local planning and land use in transport. Anybody who has been involved in a local authority will be aware that public transport is an issue. I note that in the year under review the NTA made submissions to approximately 30 develop plans - regional plans, county development plans and town development plans. Has the NTA a big planning section? There seems to be a great deal of work for a body to make 30 submissions. Draft development plans are sizeable documents. Has the NTA a standard one the cover of which they change when sending it off to each local authority or does much work go into that? It is an important issue for the public.