Planning

Free legal aid for environmental challenges will be developed in ‘collaborative manner’

Paul Hogan, Assistant Secretary at the Department of Housing, said the new scheme will protect judicial reviews on environmental grounds

Speaking at the committee today, senior Department of Housing official Paul Hogan said the new provision in the bill would protect judicial reviews on environmental grounds.

A new free legal aid scheme for environmental challenges will be developed in a “collaborative manner” by the government once the new planning bill has been passed, according to a senior housing official.

Paul Hogan, Assistant Secretary at the Department of Housing with responsibility for planning, was appearing in front of the Oireachtas committee on Housing to discuss the government’s new planning bill. The Draft Planning and Development bill contains the biggest overhaul to the ...