Ms Justina Corcoran:

The Department has recently put in place new resources, with a new role at principal officer level to look at planning. It is not a role we have had in the Department until now. That person is looking at the planning area and local authorities. We have engaged with that section about the local authorities' development plans, the climate action plans and how they align. There are different time limits and efforts to feed into plans. They may already have gone a certain way. We try to align some of those processes and to align the national climate action plan with the local ones so we are not all approaching it from different angles. There has been much more engagement and more dialogue in our Department about where that fits into the overall planning picture and the plans.