Ms Angela Denning:

This was a case about protective costs orders. It brought certainty to the eligibility for protective costs orders. What we have seen on the list since is that we are having fewer costs hearings in the middle of cases, which means that the time to move cases through the list has sped up. The judge in charge of the list has put a number of regimes in place to try to speed up that hearing time. For example, two strategic infrastructure cases where An Coimisiún Pleanála made the decision just before Christmas have now been dealt with.