Ms Maria Graham:

There are areas where joint strategies are important and they cover many sectors. The housing and residential aspect is important. It is also a feature when it comes to renewable energy where one authority abuts another, one has designated the area for wind energy, the other has not, but it is the same effective landscape and topography. This is probably something a piece of the OPR can look at, but the OPR has to be working within a statute and a policy. On wind energy, it would be talking to Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications about how regional strategies might be put in place to bring the national targets down to regional so that the local development plans have to fit within that. However, it is a fair point around those issues. We would have looked at some of the provisions, as Deputy Ó Broin has said, to see where there can be interventions, to look at where they may have been subject to some legal cases, but it is just to look at that.