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:
Again, it is quite difficult because up until a couple of years ago planning cases were not divided out from the normal judicial review non-jury list. Then they were divided out into the strategic infrastructure list, as part of the commercial list, but they had to have commerciality - they had to be worth over €1 million - in order to go onto that list. So there were still some cases in the non-jury judicial review list and some cases in the commercial list, and then we would have injunction applications coming in, perhaps over the summer, and a judge would keep them. We never had a complete picture really until last year of all of the planning and environmental matters as they stood.
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