Mr. Daniel McLoughlin:

That is a good point and one that will be very important to examine in more detail. The situation is that a baseline survey is done prior to planning, but once we get into the permission and detailed design stage, we have do the detailed environmental impact analysis.

To the Chair's point, take the Clonburris strategic development zone, SDZ, for example. It was developed as an SDZ and would have had a complete environmental analysis done at the stage of developing the planning scheme that is called an SDZ. Two years later, following approval of the SDZ, you have to go back and do an environmental analysis. Environmental reports do not hold up for an extended period of time because of the fluid nature of our natural environment because growth patterns, habitation patterns, winter birding and the different seasonal patterns of fauna and flora vary over time and-----