Ms Sarah Neary:

There have been some good examples of the one-stop shop, such as the Living City initiative in Dublin City Council, DCC. DCC had set up a one-stop shop for applications for that initiative. It brought together its multidisciplinary groups dealing with planning and building control, fire safety, heritage and accessibility. It provided that service. Therefore, I do not think it is impossible to do the one-stop shop, but the landscape might be very different. The two pillar areas are planning and building control. If there is an exemption under planning, we are probably back to a one-stop shop in terms of building control, fire safety and the 12 parts of the building regulations.