Ms Attracta Uí Bhroin:

Specifically, if we want to take it home, we need to look to the new Planning and Development Bill 2023. The provisions in the Bill relating to access to justice are deeply concerning. It goes very much to Senator Keogan's question regarding the responsibility of the Minister with responsibility for the environment and oversight in the context of what we are doing on access to justice and the barriers that are being erected to preclude citizens from being able to engage in environmental decision-making. That will have a huge impact. It will not only impact on the rights of those citizens. Very problematically, what we are hearing from an unusual coalition of experts across the board, including lawyers, builders, NGOs, academics and so on, is that these changes will cause delays to the delivery of key infrastructure.