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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: We mentioned EirGrid.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: EirGrid looks after the grid itself, but for connections I imagine Electric Ireland is the right organisation.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Construction Federation Ireland, as I mentioned, would be one.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe as a gcur i láthair inniu agus cuirim fáilte rompu. The purpose of our committee is to try to unpick the delays and costs that are affecting so many infrastructural and housing projects. It seems to be the case that, even before construction ever starts for anything, the journey is so long. There are so many different hoops that have...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Has there been any increase?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Ms Denning said that 252 cases are currently in the system for this year. There are three full-time judges and two part-time. Let us say there are four judges in this scenario. That means each judge has 63 cases. If it takes two months for a judge to give a judgement on each of those cases, then we are talking about 126 months for those cases that are in place, which is ten years for this...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: No bother. Ms Denning has given us examples of two speedy cases and slow cases of four and six years. Can we as a committee get an average? I do think that is important. It may not be today, but at a further time. We are regularly told by Ministers that the judicial review process is slowing down the delivery of construction infrastructure. We need to know what the average time is.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Is that the start time of the process?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Is it not the case that a person puts in an application first and then a date is given?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that, but is there a difference in time before I make an application for a judicial review and then a date is given? I want to know if we are starting from the very start of the process? Getting a date might not be the start of the process.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: Can we get an average to the committee?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That is important. Finally, there has been a massive increase, but it is not just because of An Coimisiún Pleanála either. It is also in part because of the SHD process. That is now being replaced by the large-scale residential development, LRD, process, I understand. It looks like the SHD process has turbo-boosted the number of judicial reviews coming into place.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: The judicial review focuses on legality or fairness in a court process. If more judicial reviews are happening, does that mean more mistakes are happening in the court process?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: I am finished now, but maybe at a later date we could get the staffing over the past five years for us to compare and contrast.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: That would be great.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of excess deaths in Ireland for each of the past five years. [38010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (9 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the funding for the Pacáiste Tacaíochta Teaghlaigh initiative cancelled for families living outside of the Gaeltacht (details supplied); and if the Minister will reverse this decision. [38176/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of leaving certificate holders who accepted a university place in each of the past ten years; the number of persons who graduated from university in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37510/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); the assistance his Department is giving to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37357/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Peadar Tóibín: 533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the ongoing housing crisis and the need to support families in mortgage-to-rent schemes in meeting their financial and social needs, if his Department has considered reviewing or amending current legislation and tenancy agreements to allow such tenants to sublet one or two rooms in their homes, provided that any such...