Tony McCormack (Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I thank Ms Denning, Ms Duffy and Ms Scott for coming in, and Ms Denning for her opening statement. We are here today in the infrastructure committee. My questions will be on the statutory judicial reviews with regard to planning, energy and transport. I listened to Deputy Tóibín and am trying to follow on from that.

There are probably too many judicial reviews happening. It is probably too easy for people to be able to make a judicial review. Without affecting people’s statutory rights, what can we do to reduce the number of judicial reviews? As a country, we are in a state of crisis with regard to housing, and as part of that housing, infrastructure has to be built to be able to put it in place. We need to do something in order for the processes to become quicker and faster. What can we do as a Government that will help the Courts Service? Is it getting more staff, more judges or more staff working with those judges? Is it changing the process? What is the best way of moving forward to have less of this?