Ann Ormonde (Fianna Fail)

I support the point raised by Senator Brian Hayes on development plans and how they move forward, particularly on having an action plan and making sites available for schools or neighbourhood centres. There is a lot of vagueness here due to a lack of co-operation between the Department of Education and Science and the Department responsible for local authorities, particularly with regard to the development plan. Perhaps the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, could come in and express her views on future plans for sites for schools. It is hard to predict these things in the long term but the situation could be clarified. The Minister is very clear in her own thinking on it, so perhaps she could enlighten us accordingly.