Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I was going to turn to the CCMA to ask about resourcing on that also. Obviously, we know that a great amount of stuff falls on the local authority. Whenever we decide to do something, we will get the local authority to look after that; whatever it might be. I also feel that a great deal of stuff falls on the planning departments because they are dealing with residential zoned land taxes now in the preparation of those maps, and all of that extra work which comes upon them. The suggestion, while it may be good one, would require resourcing. This is something that could be done regionally for a number of local authorities, where one would not have one’s own dedicated person dealing with it, but would have a regional monitor of county development plans to feed back to councillors.