Terry Leyden (Fianna Fail)

I ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, to come to the House to consider my proposal that he give consideration to the postponement of the review of county development plans on the basis of vast savings for councils at this difficult time. From my experience as an architect, very little development will take place over the next five years and any plan can be revised as a county council can put forward a material contravention. For example, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has estimated a cost of €2 million to carry out the review of the county development plans, Kerry County Council has an estimate of €200,000 for that review, Meath County Council has allocated €200,000, Cork County Council is working on the costings, Sligo County Council has allocated a massive amount for its review and Galway County Council has allocated in the region of €175,000. The list goes on and the figures vary a bit. Monaghan County Council has a figure of €265,000, Westmeath has allocated in the region of €40,000 to €50,000, Waterford County Council, the Leader's area, has included €50,000, which is very economical, and Mayo County Council, in the Cathaoirleach's area, had a sum of approximately €78,000 in 2009 and it put €150,000------