Mr. Brendan Quinn:

I do not know the answer to that question. All I can tell the Senator is that at the time the county development plan was being discussed, when it came to the final draft of the county development plan and when the chief executive of Mayo County Council went back to the chamber and said, "These are the changes we should make", one of which was to exclude the controversial MTO 9, it refused to change it. Also, in the final phase of submissions, when the plan has been approved and then goes back to the final phase of submissions, the Department put in a submission asking that that clause be taken out, effectively, and it made a point of not taking it out.