Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have some questions, rather than points. The Minister of State may not have this information to hand but if there is an indicative list, or a list of the current co-ordinated area plans, I would be interested in having it. I know of three or four of them.

When we were discussing the propositions made by the then Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, in the previous Oireachtas some of the Deputies who represent Athlone highlighted the urgency of this. They stated that this issue had been around for a long time and there was a real need to make progress. For example, wastewater infrastructure was needed and other issues were not progressing. They called for movement.

I want to be clear about this. Let us take Waterford as an example because it is one of the areas, with Waterford and Ferrybank. This is not to reopen the Crotty the Robber war from a previous Oireachtas. The issue is that Waterford currently has a development plan that runs until 2028. Am I reading this section and amendment correctly if I say the current development plan will be allowed to run its course, a new development plan will be put in place, which will be a ten-year plan, and it would be within the first five years of the new ten-year plan that these plans would commence?