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- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Is this encouraging more cases?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: If you do have grounds, you are scot free.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Who pays the barristers?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Thank you for explaining that. Sorry, Deputy Tóibín.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: The next speaker was meant to be Senator Cathal Byrne who is in the Seanad Chamber. Senator Stephenson may come in now and then we will go back to Senator Byrne when he comes back in from the Seanad.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Following on briefly from that, I commented on the excellent report the Courts Service published earlier this week. I have seen the report and looked at some of it. It has a big section of about 80 pages on the year in numbers. There is phenomenal information in it for people who are interested. Is it possible next time to maybe have the information the Senator is referring to in terms of...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Can the Courts Service categorise them without asking? Can it categorise judicial reviews? I am looking at the report and it goes down to the details where one party is suing another under family law. It has outstanding information. It mentions commercial issues and commercial courts, examinerships, childcare orders, supervision of care orders and domestic abuse. It has phenomenal...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: To identify that.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Right. You get the point. I am still complimenting you on the detail you have in there.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: There is a PhD there for somebody. I thank the Senator. The next speaker is Senator Cathal Byrne because he was out of the room, and we said we would bring both Senators in.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Will Ms Denning be able to provide information on the percentage of cases that go through the expedited procedure? If she does not have that to hand, perhaps she might send it on to us. Further to what she said, I have often heard people say when they are not happy with a development, "Sure, we'll go for a judicial review and it'll take as long as it takes." They feel the other side...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Does the judge ever offer the parties six months and if they are not back with their stuff, he will dismiss the case, make a ruling or whatever? Can that happen? Does that happen?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Some people might regard taking a judicial review as an abuse of process. While I am not saying it is a fact, anecdotally we hear people who are involved in these saying that. In a roundabout way we are more or less saying the same thing. The judge will spot if somebody is not really co-operating with getting the case moved by sitting there.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: It is indeed.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: That is an increase to 26,500 days.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Is that the entire case?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Will Ms Denning send a note on all of that?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: We will suspend for ten minutes for a vote in the Dáil.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: We are resuming our discussion with the Courts Service on planning and infrastructure matters specifically.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)
Seán Fleming: Would anybody else like to contribute? Deputy Cronin.