Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The best indication I can give is that the next meeting of the working group, which will hopefully be the final meeting, is this month, a few weeks away. We should be in a position to finalise the work after that. It has taken a long time because we have engaged with the Commission on this and that can be lengthy. The working group met four times, most recently in November 2018. The first meeting was in May 2017. We will see what comes out of the final meeting this month. Then we can take it forward and I will be happy to engage with the committee on that as well because it is important to bring clarity to this. We will have to issue guidelines to local authorities to implement which should help the new development plans in the roll-out after the regional plans are put in place.

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