Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

COP29: Discussion

11:25 am

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is not a subjective view, although the term “fast-tracking” perhaps is. Let us be clear that applications for liquefied natural gas infrastructure would previously have had to go through a local authority and then An Bord Pleanála, whereas they can now go directly to An Bord Pleanála. That is a shorter planning application process than was previously the case. That is not an opinion. It is objective.

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