Ms Cl?ona Kimber:

Yes. Australia has a land planning and environmental court, I think, in New South Wales. That operates what they call a multi-door system designed to resolve disputes, which it does in various ways, ranging from top-of-the-range High Court matters to the more mundane. It might involve coming into a room like this with the associated parties and reaching a resolution on some of the big items, such as Shell to Sea, and moving forward on that. If there are very hard disputes and people are strenuously aggrieved and they do not have an avenue in the courts, they are going to be on the streets. That is what happened with Shell to Sea. If a wind farm or a strategic energy structure is put up in a rural community and they have no way in to having the dispute resolved by a democratic process, they are going to be out on the streets protesting and demonstrating. They will be knocking on the doors of their Deputies and there will be endless fuss. Disputes will be there, the question is how to resolve them. How can we resolve them at a lower level, outside of a judicial review process. There may be scope for something creative to be introduced into the Bill to deal with disputes. That may involve giving additional functionality to an coimisiún pleanála. The Labour Relations Commission, LRC, model was created to deal with industrial disputes, rather than having people out on strike. How do we get everybody into a room talking to each other? It might be useful if an coimisiún pleanála had that functionality, to introduce something of that nature.