Mr. Noel Cahill:

Development plans are high-level plans and cover all the areas on which development is envisaged over quite a long period. With regard to the examples mentioned, we have a hierarchy of plans but there is scope in smaller areas for more detailed planning and for arranging to provide the infrastructure. To have large-scale development, it is sometimes desirable for a public body to take over management of the area, do the planning and install the infrastructure. An example of where that was done here involves Dublin Docklands Authority. It had powers and finance and achieved a huge amount. It may be an unfortunate example in some ways. Some of the European examples involve a body operating in selected areas. Possibly the Land Development Agency could in some cases take on a big area of development.