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)

Mr. Niall Byrne:

On the large-scale residential developments, LRDs, this is moving back to the local authority as a decision maker in the first instance. There will also be the appeal mechanism. An LRD will no longer go directly to judicial review, but people might be satisfied with that opportunity to mount an appeal. That may reduce the number of judicial reviews.