Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A note to the committee would be very useful. Without overburdening Ms Graham, could that note include an indicative list of where there have been those notices, infringements or enforcement, as well as costs to date?

That would be useful for the purposes of this, if the information is available. The second point relates to both EIA directives and our obligations under the Aarhus Convention, where there is a set of very clear requirements for public participation. In the piece of work the Department is doing around this module, what is the mechanism to ensure full compliance? I ask because this committee has heard from various people at various stages concerns that aspects of our planning system, in the past or present, are not necessarily as Aarhus-compliant as they could be. Is specific attention being given in the review work to ensure we capture areas where there may be a compliance issue or to ensure any changes are fully compliant and do not fall foul, intentionally or unintentionally, of those public participation and access to information standards?

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