Mr. Paul Hogan:

We would see the strategy for the intervening period of work in terms of what plans are to be done and the priority areas that need a bit of planning work as being set at the county development plan stage. One of the concerns has been that just because a town has a certain scale of population, a mandatory local area plan is required, even though there may not be significant development to take place or a plan done some years back remains perfectly acceptable. Regarding efficiency and enabling the resources within the system to be deployed where most needed, removing that mandatory aspect of a plan just because a place has a certain population is considered an improvement.