Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Mr. Peter Walsh:

It was submitted to planning in 2006, got its planning approval, which was appealed, and went through the courts, ending up in Europe, and finally was quashed. In that case we could not proceed. We went back to planning for that some years later and again it got planning approval as a different project. It did not impact on a designated area but it is now the subject of a number of judicial reviews. In the end, An Bord Pleanála conceded that the approval was not in compliance with legislation, so it was quashed and is now back with An Bord Pleanála. That process started in 2006 in the planning process. There is shorter-term ones-----

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