Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Kevin Mahon:

Now, Friends of the Irish Environment, FIE, has sought a judicial review of the decision made by An Bord Pleanála. The board has granted us a one-year extension to our substitute consent application because it knows that is how long it is going to take for the judicial review to be heard. The relief for substitute consent is the easy part. It will be at least three years before we are in-----