Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I think Ms Henchy is right about public engagement. As councillors, we always told people when the county development plan or local area plan was available and asked to hear their views. Sometimes we get very good submissions but they are not relevant to the local area plan. They are relevant to some other plan. How do we get more people involved at that stage? How do we explain, for example, that this is the zone, these are the objectives and this is what is likely to happen in this area over the next six to ten years?