Mr. Garret Doocey:

The objective was inserted in the county development plan by the elected members in exercise of their statutory functions in the development of the plan. From a funding perspective, if a funding application were to come in from the local authority relating to a project that the development plan simply excludes effectively, that would be a barrier to providing funding. How could funding be provided to something that the development plan says cannot be funded effectively? Therefore, we have an issue with that current objective with regard to the capacity of TII to consider a funding application for it. That is a fundamental issue here.