Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Philip Jones:

We have not got the document the Chairman mentioned to see it side by side, but from what we have seen, head 294 is pretty similar to 160. The devil in the detail is section 9, where anybody can still take it but then you cannot use the evidence, as we mentioned earlier, of a declaration which said it is not exempt, which seems unfair. It still allows for any person to take a case to the Circuit Court or High Court alleging unauthorised development. I do not think we have a huge issue with that except for the disadvantage under section 9.

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