Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would like to follow on from Senator Boyhan's point. It is important that there is some sort of very simplified reporting process on county development plans, if they go to ten years, for the elected members of the council. It should tell them the basics like how much land was zoned, how much has planning permissions on it, what has commenced, etc., just so one could track it all the way through rather than just waiting after five or six years, and getting a response on it then. The regional assemblies probably do that on the regional planning guidelines, or the regional spatial and economic strategy, RSES.