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)

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

Here is a clear case where, in fact, in many of these judicial reviews the point of law at the centre of the contest was a divergence between national law and specific planning policy requirements, SPPRs, versus the development plan. If somebody were, therefore, to take a judicial review to uphold the development plan and then had it upheld, under the very limited wording of the proposed section 250, they would not get cost protection and would not be eligible to apply-----

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