Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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That is okay. Just to let Mr. O’Connell know, there have been 32 and over 23 of those are from residential developers. It might be something worth looking at and exploring to see.

In terms of the rise of those judicial reviews, Mr. O’Connell will remember that there was a period when one would almost never have got a judicial review of a large-scale residential development. That is a particular feature of our planning system in more recent years, particularly in 2020, 2021 and 2022. What is Mr. O’Connell’s understanding of what caused that? He could argue that people have always been concerned about developments in their own neighbourhood but in his assessment, what led to a dramatic surge in judicial reviews during that period?