Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I wish to bring the meeting to an end before we are called for a vote. Judicial reviews are prohibitively expensive, with the cost for an individual, an organisation, or a council running into hundreds of thousands of euro. It is critical that An Bord Pleanála gets its decision right in the first instance. When a council has refused planning permission on the grounds that the development would materially contravene the development plan, is there a significant difference between refusing planning permission on the grounds of materially contravening the development plan and contravening policies and objectives?