Mr. Gavin Lawlor:

I agree. It is concerning. One of the issues that we have as an institute and as professionals and planners is that we have a new planning Bill, though I am old enough to have been around for the previous one, which is generally a once-in-generation or once-in-a-career opportunity to influence how things should be adjusted. Much is right with the 2000 Act and much is wrong with it too. We are trying to fix the ills. There is no roadmap. I know the committee has asked the Department for that roadmap. One of the biggest problems with this is that we have a planning Bill of more than 700 pages and we do not know where the changes have been made, why they are being made in certain cases and what they are attempting to fix. It is like spot the ball.