Ms Edel Kelly:

The biggest gap in relation to the local authorities dealing with drones and drone deliveries in particular is that there is no planning framework or planning policy. The local authorities and planning authorities are acting within a vacuum. The appropriate place for that consultation or engagement would be with our development plans, as they come. However, for us to be effective in that regard, we have to have this national policy that we then bring in to our city or county plans. In the absence of that, we cannot really do this from a bottom-up point of view. We need this to come from central government. We really are working within a vacuum. The planning application lands with Dublin City Council and it is very difficult to deal with.