Mr. Martin Collins:

I fully concur with that. One of the recommendations in the independent expert review report of 2019 was that Part 8 of the planning process would be suspended for a period - I think it was five years - and would then be reviewed and perhaps even reinstated at that stage. That is key for the planning process. We were told by legal experts that that could not be done, that it would be illegal and so on.

Last year there was an amendment to one of the housing Acts, or it may have been the Planning and Development Act, whereby large-scale infrastructure housing projects exceeding 100 units would be exempt from Part 8 planning laws. It was quite easy to introduce it there when the need was quite evident but-----