Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

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

1:20 am

Dr. Fred Logue:

It is very simple. The Aarhus Convention can determine who can litigate subject to those two criteria: wide-access justice and Article 47. In general, you cannot impose criteria in respect of what can be litigated. Therefore, it is more about the who than the what. The who has to meet a certain standard, and that standard is set out in the case law of the European Court of Justice.