Ms Anne Marie O'Connor:

Our experience of the NPF is that it takes time. The framework is there but, coming out of that, we also had to have the regional, spatial and economic strategies and then, on foot of those strategies, every county and city development plan in the country had to be reviewed. We have almost completed that cycle. We hope to be looking at a very different set of development plans, which are implementing the NPF locally, compared with what was there in the five or six years since 2017. We need to give the framework an opportunity to work. There are different parts to it. The overall strategy of regional rebalancing is very positive and very strong on certain issues like flood management. We have been able to be very effective in that space.