Mr. Paul Benson:

We do not have that information but there are two recommendations from the expert group regarding Part VIII. One calls for the role of elected members in that regard to be suspended and for the chief executive to make such decisions. The other recommendation is that legislation be brought in to allow for such proposals to go straight to An Bord Pleanála. Those are two very different recommendations and they are in some ways contradictory, so a project has been established to review them and do the research that is required. One of the pieces of research will be to find out whether there is empirical evidence that Part VIII applications are being refused and, if so, how many. We do not have that information currently. Part of the work of the project group that has been set up will be to consider that and report back to the board.