Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
IBEC Report on Infrastructure Ambition for a Competitive, Productive and Resilient Economy: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Aidan Sweeney:
An individual objector-type issue for a key piece of infrastructure. It might be a project that is good for the climate, for example, or water for Dublin and someone on the Shannon says "No" because that is his or her water and Dublin cannot have it. It is how to rebalance those decisions. We are talking about a couple of things. An expert group needs to be set up to review within six months the functioning of the Irish planning system in the context of how it operates across Europe within the same systems, the same Aarhus Convention and the same processes, to see if we have got the balance between the public interest in the planning system. Is it too weighted towards the individual? That is one approach.
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