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)

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

I have three more questions. On the judicial reviews, there are different opinions about two aspects of the proposed change. Some believe it will reduce the ability of certain actors to take judicial reviews and others say it will not have any impact. According to a related argument, some say the number of legal challenges will be reduced, whereas others say the change will increase the number of satellite challenges. Do the representatives of either organisation have a view on those two points?

My second question relates to the fact that a huge volume of this legislation will come to light only through additional regulations. In fact, I suspect the regulations will be substantially longer than the Bill itself.

Does the Irish Planning Institute have any comment on that? Is it a concern? Some things are much better in regulations, but given that it is so big, we will have quite a long regulatory and commencement process.

I return to the issue of the land value sharing tax and development contributions. In our first session, the departmental officials told us something interesting, namely, that they may seek to merge the two proposed Bills. Mr. Jones made reference to the land value sharing tax. What was the other one?

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