Ms Maria Graham:

I will reply in reverse order. We have an interdepartmental group on which the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications is represented from the perspective of our understanding its role, consent and interest in this area and across the renewable agenda and climate change agenda. Obviously, colleagues are dealing with embodied carbon. Part of this is about future proofing the legislation and much of it relates to this processes. How do we reflect that and how policy is taken into account in the process in the knowledge that those policies may evolve? We certainly can reflect on those issues but there is piece at the start of the new planning Act that sets out what planning is about, what sustainable development means and the interaction with the environment to the degree that can be described that in a legislative form because it evolves over time. We mentioned a number of issues on the last occasion from a policy perspective that are important and the way we have moved to set that up in items of legislation. For example, the Land Development Agency Act sets out a good deal at the beginning of the legislation on why we need it. Some of this legislation may not be as well articulated on some of these issues. That would provide an important frame for the development plan process, how difficult balancing of planning decisions come about and some of the items the Deputy mentioned. We are conscious a range of measures are coming on stream which, as the Deputy said, will evolve, and perhaps the legislation, without prescription, will be able to take that on board.