Mr. Paul Hogan:

It is our intention from now on, where we issue new guidelines or what would typically have been guidelines, to try to introduce a new format, the national planning statements, once that is commenced. We would certainly draft any new guidelines in that format. It is our intention to seek to provide the clarity that was promised with the planning Act through a series of easy-to-follow planning statements that identify what should be consistent nationally, but also enabling that local discretion we have talked about, whereby local authorities can then apply that overriding national policy situation to their local circumstances through a variety of appropriate means.