Mr. John Coleman:

Sure. I will bring in my colleague, Ms Lawson, on this shortly. We have a very specific strategy and policy around community engagement. It is our obligation and duty as a public body to do that. We have to listen to the public in existing communities that we impact with our developments. We have to talk to them. It also makes total business sense for the LDA to do this. In our experience, if we are looking to reduce the risk of objections, observations or even judicial reviews, talking to locals and local community groups is critical. It makes good business sense for the LDA even if we could not care less about community engagement, which we very much care about.

We have had a pretty good hit rate for planning approvals as a result of that, barring one in Dundrum. That was disappointing because no residents' groups had opposed that scheme; an individual did. Generally speaking, we find that community engagement helps the projects along and increases their chances of getting delivered along the timeframes. I will ask Ms Lawson to expand on that a little more.