Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Rachel Minch:
That is a really interesting point. When we were looking at this, one of the areas we were looking at was whether section 146A could be broadened to capture to some extent certain obvious errors that do not ultimately go to the substance of the underlying decision. That strikes me as pragmatic. Section 131 does broaden it to some extent to refer to being able to correct the decisions that clarify matters. Our view, therefore, was that this could be looked at and section 146A could perhaps be broadened rather than necessarily going down this route.
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