Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Sure. If we reflect on the failures not only of the SHD process, but of the section 28 ministerial guidelines that drove many of those judicial reviews, it is clear that if we had far more 3D planning in place in those locations, it would have removed many of the conflicts. Both the public and developers would have known that the parameters in location X were density Y and height Z. In some senses those two conversations are related. We should do far more of this. It goes back to tree protection orders. Ms Uí Bhroin and I have an SDZ in our constituency. We were looking at Clonburris. There are important historic eskers and hedgerows that run through it. A 3D master plan indicates whether or not they are being protected. When elected members got that plan and saw that a huge part of the historic esker would be destroyed, we forced the reconfiguration of the plan. That benefits everyone. The more of that we can work in, the better. It is not either-or; the two go hand in hand.