Dr. Se?n O'Leary:

We have formal and informal engagement with our colleagues in the Department. The last formal engagement was just before Christmas. Many of the issues involved waiting to see the detail. I am sure there will be formal and informal engagement on that. As the Deputy said, the difficulty is trying to engagement with this complicated issue that one only sees once. It is written for a number of different audiences. There are practical matters that have not been ironed out. I am sure there will be formal and informal opportunities. The last formal engagement involved waiting to see. The devil is in the detail.

The Deputy will be aware that there is a compressed timeline to get into that detail and even for us to go through the extensive spreadsheet of stuff that we have got back from our members. The institutes are probably the only avenue for that to ever be represented. There has been engagement with senior planners, directors and so on across local authorities. Ultimately, people were surprised that this was delivered roughly when it was said it was going to be delivered and that it did what it said it would do, with everything that was going to be in it. As the Deputy said, it would be useful if there was a map of what changed and which section does what, to at least speed up the process of having to go through it line by line.