Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
2:30 am
Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I want to go back to correcting any error of law. It was said that what exists at the moment is the quash and remit, in other words, we put our hands up, admit we made a mistake, and it is a case of quash and remit. If we were going back to a 16-week decision process, we could say that is not a massive penalty to pay. In fact, with the quash and remit, is it going back into An Bord Pleanála's heavily backlogged system and possibly not seeing a result out of it? Is that something that is being tried to be fixed here whereas it is actually a resources issue to meet timeframes?
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