Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021
Mr. Eamonn Kelly:
First of all, the time allowed for the public to consider is clearly one of the key elements of the planning process. We will absolutely consider a longer period than five weeks. It will not be in the Act. It will be in regulations, but we can feed that it into the Oireachtas if and when the legislation proceeds. We cannot comment on individual cases, such as Derrybrien, but the European Court of Justice case says the decision will be expunged when the development complies with the EIA directive. We can only know what that will be when the board has carried out its independent assessment and issued its determination. It would be premature to contemplate when the fines might be finished because we will not know until the board makes its decision.
Are there any other fines-----
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