Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Ó Broin raised this in one of the previous sessions with the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, RIAI, and they talked about 3D. A lot of people will look at a development plan map and cannot picture in their mind what a purple, yellow or pink zone is, or what 20 or 40 to the hectare might mean. People cannot visualise that and I think that is why we then have the conflict when the application goes in. I do not know how we would transition to that but my guess is it would come back to resources issue. A lot of the difficulties we have had and also have discussed with the legal teams here also is resources within the judicial system to deal with these in the timeframe. Planning authorities are quite good in meeting their statutory decision times. Obviously we know the difficulties and the backlog the board had. Again, I imagine if we want to do it like that, and it seems a sensible way to do it, we need to ensure local authorities are fully resourced to do that.