Mr. John Spain:

There are situations where the planning authority must make its decision in accordance with the planning scheme and there is no appeal by any party to the board. Whatever Government policy says, it is the planning scheme that still carries the weight. Great difficulties arise in certain SDZs where there is either a very long delay or no update of those plans to bring them into line with Government policy. For example, the urban development and building height guidelines were a critical change of Government policy. They still have not yet been incorporated, for all kinds of reasons I will not go into, into the one of the most key development areas in the State, namely, the Dublin docklands SDZ. It is still working off a framework that was decided ten years ago.