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)
Mr. Tom Flynn:
The difficulty with that, I presume, is that with a contested decision, there is a realism that one person's clerical error or minor change to a decision is another person's very significant change. In fact, that is one of the difficulties when one talks about correcting an error of law. The decision-maker may say they have identified an error of law here and they are going to correct this now but the applicant or person seeking to challenge will say the decision-maker has not correctly identified the error of law and what they are proposing does not correct the error of law.
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