Mr. Ken Cleary:

As Ms Connors said, certain elements of this Act will be adopted by secondary legislation, or statutory instruments. Part of that is how environmental challenges are dealt with. A separate work stream is progressing that work and being led by the Department of environment, but the Departments of housing and public expenditure and the Attorney General's Office are all part of that group. We are looking at what the options are there in regard to secondary legislation to give effect to what the Government wants to achieve via the planning Act in a way that balances value for money, as we have talked about, and speed of delivery.

We also have to balance environmental concerns and our obligations at European level with development speed as well. That group is specifically introducing that secondary legislation.