Ms Deirdre Scully:

In my reading of it, I see this legislation as fitting that model as it is. Dublin City Council's development plan has the concept of strategic regeneration development areas, where we do set out a framework as to how we see particular brownfield lands rolled out. The UDZ will create a refinement of that and allow for a greater level of detail, which is positive. There is a resource issue there in that all of that work has to be done in advance of writing a development plan because once the development plans are started, an enormous amount of work is required of the staff who are there. It is about timing and how we integrate those things into the development plan. That will have to be worked on as we roll forward into the next series of plans. However, I think it will be beneficial. Let us consider, for example, the Grangegorman Development Agency and, in some ways, how we hope the Land Development Agency will deliver some of its key brownfield sites. This legislation provides a beneficial tool in that regard. A purpose-built vehicle can work through in great detail how a brownfield site will be delivered, engage with the local community, work out all the transport implications and how the design fits within the area. That is a positive element through which the scheme can deliver for brownfield.

We recently started a consultation process for the Ballyboggan Road area, which is a Dublin industrial estate. It is a very complex area. Depending on how this Bill goes, there is potential for areas such as that where there is deeply fragmented ownership. We need to balance that and ensure we can resource it with open spaces, school sites, connections and new roads that need to go in.