Mr. Gerry Murphy:

I will pass on to Mr. Creegan to finalise the reply. There are two areas in which we work with the local authorities. We work through the issues with all of the local authorities in the Dublin area prior to them doing these development plans and then we work with the regional authorities on a lot of their submissions and the preparation of their guidelines. There is a lot of preparatory work and liaison work done with them. We have a significant planning quotient of staff which reflects our national obligations. Perhaps Mr. Creegan would pick up on that.