Mr. Paul Hogan:

We get the point. How we address this, whether it is through regulation or guidance, will be important. However, as a principle, given what we are talking about here, and particularly for a UDZ scenario where there is a lot of development taking place, we feel the model which operates, for example, in an area like Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown where there is a county-wide scheme, and then a kind of SDZ scheme for a particular area, is quite useful because it means that an element is for the particular area, and another element is for the county. That may be a way of looking at it. In principle, and this is the principle rather than the detail, because of what we are talking about here, it is to enable development. It is to ensure that things happen in a given area, at scale and quickly. The priority should be for the particular area. Depending on the size of the county, and the nature of the local authority, it could well be an adjacent wider area as well. Then, of course, there is the whole of the local authority as a further element.

There has to be a degree of prioritisation and a degree of applicability, but it is really important that a significant element relates to the particular area. One can see, even when we are talking about offsets for the delivery of infrastructure that is necessary, how that is very much related to that particular development. That is quite an extreme to something else, somewhere else in the county.