Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
2:00 am
Cathal Byrne (Fine Gael)
My second question relates to the issues that came from the judicial review of the Galway ring road project, where a motorway around Galway was granted planning permission by An Coimisiún Pleanála and that permission was then overturned on the basis that it did not take into account climate mitigation measures under the climate action Act, specifically in section 15. Is the Minister’s Department reviewing that to reconcile the balance between our obligations under the climate Act and the need to deliver key infrastructure projects, like motorways, or does he envisage that no changes will be made in that regard?
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