Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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I have a couple of final questions myself. If the county development plan goes to a ten-year plan, do our guests believe it would be helpful if there was an ongoing monitoring of the county development plan, like we do monitoring of the regional plan? What if we had ongoing monitoring of a county development plan with this feedback to councillors? Often, and I am sure many of our guests have experienced this, we can move from one county plan to another, and the same bit of land remains zoned with the same objectives on it, and nothing seems to happen on it. Do our guest contributors believe that that might be helpful in the process to get these yearly updates on what is happening, what is moving, what is under development, and what is constrained for whatever reason?