Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

On the question of strategic environmental assessment, SEA, then, each county carries out its own SEA with its development plan process. Has consideration been given that we could do it on a regional basis or sub-regional basis with maybe two or three local authorities, especially as we are aligning county development plans now as well? An SEA could be done to free up that resource. It is kind of resource heavy to do one for each county.