Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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This is helpful. I want to go back to two questions that I asked earlier. I will give Mr. Lawlor an opportunity to put on the record in more detail the concerns he outlined initially about Parts 2, 9 and 11 with regard to development management and judicial review. I also have a question for Mr. Jones with respect to the shift from voluntary ministerial guidelines to what I prefer to call ministerial policy statements. They are given a different name in the Bill but they are really ministerial policy statements. There is a series of expedited mechanisms to amend plans, possibly including strategic development zones depending on what is in the transitional mechanism. I am interested to hear the views of the witnesses on these two issues.