Mr. Aidan Sweeney:

The issue with this is that the granted leave to appeal or take a case has now been narrowed. The court can potentially refuse to deal with a minor deficiency and send it back to An Coimisiún Pleanála. We would like to make that even stricter. That is what the Kelly report recommended. It said deficiencies or errors in judgment can be corrected and that wish to be corrected does not have to be for someone objecting. It could be for the person who has made the application. The key thing for us is to recognise that An Coimisiún Pleanála is a quasi-judicial body anyway, so it should be the one making the pure planning-related issues and the court should only be there for matters of legal argument.