Ms Valerie Brennan:

On digital planning, one thing the Senator touched upon there was the potential to make spatial data available.

The world has changed. What we should be doing more of is keeping records of environmental data, in particular, and having those centrally available. There are shifts towards this now and it is very good for us, as a country, to have those data accessible to others, especially survey data on aspects of the environment. That is where we really need to shift towards and any legislative support which can help enable that is very positive.

With regard to the volume of material, there could be benefits to encouraging things to be more concise, for example, by having page limits, be they via this Bill or by other means. If things are to happen, they must be manageable. I do not think there is a need for the volume of materials, as Deputy Higgins mentioned, or boxes of stuff. We need to try to be smarter about how we make applications digestible and processible for us all.