Ms Anne Marie O'Connor:

In a way, I agree with Senator Moynihan. There is a subtlety in terms of the Dún Laoghaire development plan that perhaps is not there in some of the other plans that we have dealt with that have been more straightforward. What happened in that instance is that the Dún Laoghaire plan came out around the same time as the new Government guidelines on housing supply targets, so the local authority did not have the benefit of the guidelines and data to inform and develop the plan. What we identified when we were reviewing the plan was that there was perhaps a misalignment and that too much land had been zoned to accommodate the number of housing units that would have been predicted through the guidelines and through the housing supply targets. Our submission is really to try to address that and focus on it. One of the previous speakers talked about choice; that is the case in Dún Laoghaire, it is about trying to prioritise and making sure we prioritise and develop first the areas that are better located in terms of access to public transport and other social and physical infrastructure in advance of the more remote areas that are still dependent on new infrastructure, particularly public transport. That is the subtlety around the Dún Laoghaire development plan. It is not that we are saying Dún Laoghaire should not grow. We should remember the national planning framework goes up to 2040. All we are dealing with is the six-year plan period. What we were trying to say in that submission related to prioritising for this six-year period where the initial growth should be concentrated on.