Mr. Martin Shanahan:

We see the national planning framework as critical and it is hugely important that decisions be made, but it must not be so diffuse that it means that we are trying to develop everything again because that does not work. It is about developing centres of scale, critical mass and clusters, as we have tried to do within our own strategy. We need the infrastructure to support it, as well as the educational institutions. We are heavily engaged with colleagues across government on what is happening on the ground.