Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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On town planners, the Royal Town Planning Institute’s submission talks about planning needing to be a corporate function within local authorities so that it is maximised and utilised to its best degree. I come from the South Dublin County Council area, where we have many strategic development zones, SDZs, and local area plans, LAPs, on top of the development plan. We have a quite well-resourced, albeit we need more resources, planning department. What is the situation now? Every local authority, I assume, has a director of planning, a county architect, and senior planners but what is the situation now and how is the institute suggesting that that may differ?