I agree with Senator Ulick Burke's call for the inclusion in the Bill of deadlines for the completion of county development plans. Only six months ago Kilkenny County Council completed a new county development plan, a process which took almost two years. The previous plan had been out of date for almost three years. It meant that planning and development in the county was considerably slowed while decisions were being made to contravene the development plan that had been drafted before the Celtic tiger and the boom years of the late 1990s.