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

I have a final point on this. In my local authority, we have a boundary with five other local authorities - the three other Dublin local authorities, and Kildare and Meath. If, at the very same time that planning officials in South Dublin County Council are doing their development plan, and there is also a requirement under this section that "insofar as is practicable" they try to co-ordinate with others, that is a lot of additional work. Therefore, it is going to be difficult for it to be practicable, particularly if the timelines for the development plans are aligned. My question is still the same one. What is practicable, and who gets to decide? What the Minister of State is kind of saying is that there is no definition of "practicable" but it seems to be left to the planning authority in the context of a hierarchy of plans to decide if it is practicably possible for them to do this or not.