Mr. Niall Cussen:

My Department colleagues and I have manned a stand at the National Ploughing Championships for the past few years and we talked to hundreds of people on those occasions. There is nothing better than planning people like ourselves dealing with the issues that ordinary citizens present at a coalface level. In the past I have worked for a local authority in Meath and I recall, with great fondness, the monthly planning clinics that it hosted throughout the county. The more that people in the planning business get out from behind their desks and engage with people the better.