Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Peter Mullan:

I am happy to address the Cathaoirleach’s questions, essentially four for me and I will then hand over to my colleague. Dealing with them sequentially, if I may, the statutory objective period, although there are a couple minor statutory categories in respect of which I am not aware, every single planning application and category has a statutory objective period. At the moment it is 16 weeks in respect of large-scale residential developments, LRDs, and 18 weeks in respect of normal planning appeals. The other thing is, and I alluded to this in my statement, whereas, at the moment, infrastructure applications and direct applications have an 18-week timeline in relation to them, the new Act recognises that the complexity of those means they require a 48-week period. We are operating to that given their complexity. The simple answer to the question is every case category has those other than some very minor categories, and we have a myriad of responsibilities which, my colleague reminds me, were introduced under the 1992 Act. In relation to judicial review, I will-----

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