Seanad debates

Friday, 4 July 2003

Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments: Motion.

 

We have been advised that the existing body of legislation in regard to the tribunals will have to be amended to permit the new chairperson to determine the issue of costs. This legislation will be brought forward by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform in the autumn. There have been some suggestions that it should have been prepared now or over the next few weeks. As the legislation required will, of its nature, be complex, it would be wrong to rush it. The Minister will examine the position over the summer months in consultation with the Attorney General. This is the sensible approach. We need to get the legislation right to minimise the potential for successful legal actions against decisions on costs.

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