Ms Pauline Cadell:

We have somebody in our Dublin 7 alliance who is actually from the Netherlands. The Netherlands has a development plan process that we have looked at and it is really worth looking at. All the stuff about planning is laid out in quite a lot of detail in the initial consultation for the local authority plan. If you want to know anything one can look at it and whole sections and everything is laid out in detail, such as height, size of apartments, where they can be built and cannot be built. He said there is so much detail there and the detail is put in during the consultation over the equivalent of our development plan. When it comes to someone submitting for a build, people know straight away that it either fits in or it does not.