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

I will not push Dr. Kelly on that case. A difficulty with that case is that the local authority would have to go for a judicial review, at a significant cost, to try to reverse the decision. Should we consider providing another mechanism to appeal a decision of An Bord Pleanála in place of a judicial review?

What consideration has been given to a planning ombudsman? The term "planning czar" was put out there and I am in favour of it as a verbal concept. I refer to some other approach where there is a determining process other than a judicial review because of the costs that arise from the latter.