Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I set out at the outset of Committee Stage that in everything that we have done, we have made sure that the Aarhus Convention is central to the Bill and that it is compliant with it. I will not go into the specific details of conversations on specific items that we have had with the Attorney General. I have explained where the advice came from. We have taken on board recommendations in many areas, even post-Second Stage. We took on recommendations from the PLS report. Contrary to what some other views may be on that, it has worked pretty well. We are working on this piece to try to refine and define the third party role that will be in this process.
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