Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Mary Jones:

We also included in the draft Bill a provision that the company must have passed a resolution to apply for judicial review. An issue regarding time came up, particularly when we talked to some of the environmental NGOs.

It is probably too long in terms of enabling an organisation or group to take a judicial review because it can take more than 21 days. We are going to look at the wording in order that it will not be a resolution but will rather be done using either of the phrases "with the consent of" or "with the knowledge of". We have undertaken to look at that wording as well, to remove the formal resolution process but-----

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