Mr. Seamus Boland:

First, I completely agree with the Deputy in terms of the importance of the sector and this is why Irish Rural Link should probably have run away from this, or I should have run away from this. I still think of the fact that we cannot afford to lose rural jobs and that is why we decided to really go looking for a solution. As for how it might work in local authorities, we put forward a template in the sense that we could get people who were willing to put their sites forward to be exposed and to go through the planning system and to learn from the planning system. Obviously, you apply for planning through the local authorities and therefore they are involved. You would like to think they would put in planning specialists to process that and to examine why this has to be considered. The earlier questions on buffers and all of that need to be examined forensically and specialists need to be in place. Above all, you need a commitment from the local authorities to do it. That does not mean that people in the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications or at Government level cannot come up with a different way of involving local authorities but my argument in the report is very strong and stark. The planning system is not really used to taking these kinds of planning applications and we have to start somewhere, hence the pilot. The pilot might just show us how to do it right, rather than making it up as you go along, even for the sake of the environment as well.