Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service
2:00 am
Ms Angela Denning:
Absolutely. The judge in charge of the list has established a user group that comprises people from county councils, somebody from An Coimisiún Pleanála, the Chief State Solicitor's Office, both small practitioners and bigger firms, members of the environmental law association and so on. I remember when I was the registrar on the list, a barrister came in and said to me we will have a lot of cases about solar farms. You get wind of that and then the discussions happen between the judges on the list, the Courts Service and the president of the court to see what can be done. With the breadth of our remit, the challenge we have is we have emergency bombs going off all over the place at times. It is a bit like whack-a-mole; you solve one problem and another one pops up. That is the reality of it. There are limited resources that have to be divided up and it is about how best to divide them to make sure there are no catastrophic problems anywhere.
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