Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The concern would be acknowledging that we are on glide path and there is percolation from the review of the national planning framework to the regional spatial strategies and so on. That is a slow process. By the time it distils through to the county development plans it could be towards the end of the decade. Meanwhile your sectoral emissions ceilings or carbon budgets might be breached. The concern would be that there is not that alignment at the local level or that it will come too late.