Mr. Charles Stanley-Smith:

We had an interesting conversation the other day around the LECPs, which are an upcoming thing, to the effect that county development plans have taken more on board of what was an LECP the first time around. We were wondering why it is necessary to have them separate. We very successfully produced a well-being statement in Tipperary. When people are doing county development plans or whatever, even down to local development plans and local area plans, they should be looking at what is in the LECP, what is in the rural development programme, RDP, that is, the actual physical planning, as well as bringing in discussions about well-being. Part of a well-being statement is bringing in the wish to have good biodiversity and all those other things into the discussion. We need to move from having these separate things to bringing them together but at a very local level, such as a village level or thereabouts, so we can discuss more than we can in a development plan where we are looking at spatial strategy or an economic or community plan where we are looking at those. Why do we not do those and well-being at the same time in the same community?