Mr. Philip Jones:

As the Deputy will see from the appendices to our opening statement, we made that view known to the advisory forum. It is the view of the institute that there should not be specific planning policy requirements, SPPRs, for development management, just for planning. Unfortunately, the legislation as proposed in section 22 does not put a defined timeline on when the existing SPPRs, which currently apply to both, will be removed. It is indefinite until revoked by the Minister or replaced by the national planning statement. That could take six months if the Department in the Custom House is quick and five years if it is not so quick.