Mr. Dave Walsh:

Local considerations, whether a local area plan, LAP, or a city or county development plan, are assessed and taken into account as part of the review of applications and proposals. The Deputy is making the point that the development is not in isolation. It requires upgrades in servicing through wastewater, water systems or traffic, and has cumulative impacts. We also have regard to national policy, from the national planning framework through what, hopefully, will be regional spatial and economic strategies and the new regional plans in place. It is always a balance to say we have to have regard to those. As I said in response to another Deputy's question, where we are seriously materially contravening and going against the local plan, we have to justify and explain why that is the case. For SHDs, when a proposal comes in that goes against the plan, it has to advertise in its public notice that it is contravening the plan and set out the reasons for that. The board will analyse and assess that in coming to its final decision.