Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
Subsection (5)(b) provides that the body concerned may:
(i) take any steps remedying – (I) any alleged failure to perform the function, or
(II) remedying an act done,
Again, there is the question of whether something is material to the decision. Is there anything that needs to be qualified here because, again, the provision seems to give limitless powers? The wording of "any steps remedying" and "remedying any act done" seems to be very broad.
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