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:
There is a bit of that, but often we have an eight-week time limit. One of the difficulties with the eight-week time limit is people have to make compressed decision-making, including the lawyer. Therefore, they want to keep their options open, which is understandable. They are there to represent their clients. That would often lead to more grounds being included, whereas maybe if there was a more extended period of time and further time to analyse and reflect on it, you may actually focus on a number of different points. There is almost a counterintuitive aspect. Let us say you changed the eight-week period to a four-week period. You would probably even find more of that in that people would have to make the decisions so compressed, they would include multiple grounds. It is therefore counterintuitive.
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