Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I get the points being made and take them sincerely. I have a certain amount of experience of development plans. I was outraged when certain things were voted through. I was then depending on the OPR to come in with a sword and state that certain parts of the plan were not on. There are two sides to it.

The regional assemblies currently carry out a two-year monitoring in respect of the eastern and midlands, northern and western and southern plans. The proposal is to extend that to four years. I agree with the assembly on keeping the monitoring at two years. Is the monitoring of the three regional plans carried out at the same time so that they can feed into whether the NPF objectives are being met? Is that how they are done at the moment?