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Donald Gorrie is absolutely right when he suggests that local development plans will be the cornerstone of the new planning system. We have to get such plans in place timeously and correctly.
On the positive front, the Executive is turning its attention to that issue. The policy environment is new, and it is hard to get everything right from the start.
Is it not surprising that what we know to be most effective gets the least resource, and what we know to be least effective gets the majority of the resource?
I know that criminal injuries compensation already exists, but it is hard for families to get anything. Perhaps there should be a new system in addition to that.
We are therefore trying to reorganise the processes and to have more locally based consultation forums that can focus more on communities of interest. That may let us get into more detail and get away from big headline consultations.