Mr. Niall Cussen:

Absolutely, and in fairness to the Government and the Oireachtas, the legislation with the new set-up of the county development plan dealing with the big picture questions, broadly speaking, of how much and where and the focus of the forward planning process pivoting much more to the urban development zones and the various different types of plans is exactly about the very point the Deputy raises. That is the focus of the forward planning process and to the credit of the Oireachtas and the Government, the forward planning elements of the Planning and Development Act are particularly innovative. There has not been an awful lot of debate or discussion in a wider sense, beyond the political process around it. Indeed, we are hoping to mobilise a whole training programme on the implementation of that legislation later on this year. Our focus is to get community very much at the heart of the planning process. Of course we have to provide housing, we have to make sure we have enough land and that the land is co-ordinated with the infrastructure but ultimately, as I said earlier, it has to deliver quality. We have to be able to look back in ten or 20 years' time at what we did through all of the development plan process and say we did a good job, that they are good communities and that places are better as a result of the planning process, not despite it.