Mr. Nick Killian:

We are open on that. We are not happy with ten years. Seven to ten years might be a better outcome. From our perspective, we are very concerned about what will be in the Bill that affects councillors and our role. Every week, something is taken away from councillors' role and powers within the council chamber. We do not want to see this Bill becoming something. It comes back to measures such as the ministerial guidelines that will be brought in. We now have a centralised rather than local planning system. Northern Ireland had a centralised planning system and it is going back to a more local planning system. We are very concerned about the centralisation of local government in our role as councillors.