Ms Gina Kelly:

I thank Senator Boyhan very much for the question. In looking at the national planning framework review, one element we were looking at, across a number of elements such as sustainable transport, sustainable heating and also the deployment of renewable electricity, was on the side of implementation. We were acknowledging the critical role that the Office of Planning Regulator, OPR, would play there in implementation and in ensuring consistency across the regional and local authority plans but also in a broader sense, in capacity-building in the sector. This is some of the important research that it has carried out in this space also.

One area, for example, recently was a very useful report on brownfield and infill development with some recommendations in order to ensure land activation and consolidation. We were pointing to a number of issues there.