Paul Bradford (Fine Gael)

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He said that the interdepartmental committee hopes to report by the end of this year. We should insist that it does so because it will have been investigating this issue for almost 15 months at that stage. Would the Minister of State not agree that until that report is in and the Government's interdepartmental committee has reported on the joint Oireachtas report we should instruct local authorities not to make further decisions on planning applications?