Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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For the non-planners in the room, will Mr. Jones explain in plain English the difference between allowing policy statements on forward planning matters but not on development management because that is an important distinction to make? The second issue is that the Department told us it is still writing the transitional arrangements that are to deal with those. Both the witnesses have mentioned those arrangements in their submissions. Has there been any engagement with the planning professionals about what those transitional arrangements are likely to be? Part of the worry here is that if it makes a mess of that, that in itself could become a serious point of litigation with, for example, the existing SPPRs or new policy statements, alongside some of the provisions for the expedited amendments to existing plans. We have seen the battles around strategic development zones. How much potential is there to get things wrong in those transitional arrangements? Should we be concerned that planning professionals are not being involved in great detail in those conversations?