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A NEW DIVISION of the High Court has been established to deal with planning and environmental cases.
The Department of Justice said the change will improve the delivery of housing, infrastructure and environmental commitments through greater efficiencies.
The Department added that the new planning and environment division of the High Court was a “key commitment in the Housing for All Strategy”.
The move has been welcomed by Justice Minister Helen McEntee and Minister of State with responsibility for Law Reform, James Browne.
The court has been operating on an administrative basis for a number of months but a ceremonial first sitting this morning will mark its full establishment as a High Court Division.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee said the new division of the High Court will “help us improve the delivery of housing by reducing planning delays” and described it as a “much needed reform”.
McEntee added that it will “also allow for greater efficiency and specialism in the handling of litigation relating to planning and environmental matters, particularly judicial reviews”.
She remarked that dealing with these cases in an “effective and efficient manner is key to enabling the State’s delivery of housing and infrastructure, while also protecting the environment”.
The new High Court division will become fully operational after the assignment of a third additional High Court judge to the area, and follows the appointment of 24 additional judges this year to increase resources in the Courts.
Minister Browne said the assignment of three judges to the Planning and Environment Court is “crucial to support increased capacity and flexibility”.
Cases will now be heard by the three judges who have been assigned to the new Court Division.
The new Division will replace and expand the scope of the “Commercial, Planning and Environmental List” of the High Court, which became operational on 17 April.
It also has an expanded scope which includes planning, transport, water, climate, natural heritage, built heritage, waste, mineral exploration, the marine, agriculture and pollution.
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This job plan will be forgotten in 1 year time and the unemployment rate will be pretty much the same. To sell smoke at long term is a very typical strategy from politicians across Europe.
Will there be 100,000 people left in Ireland in 4 years?
we wont be here anyway!!
Looking like Me and family mat not be
Might be going that way myself.
Austerity = no growth = no jobs = emigration.
100000 jobs over 4 years where and even if there is no increase in unemployment it will still leave 350000 unemployed.
Howlin will be jumping up and down on his biscuit tin today lecturing us in that pandering condescending way with 5 pints of complan kenny by his side
Funny but I can feel a referendum in the air
If this government was serious about creating jobs they would tear up their last (anti-growth) budget and start again with a budget that favoured growth in the real economy rather than protecting the interests of the public sector & bank bondholders.
Attached: Why Government attempts to create employment do more harm than good.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577197044156250870.html
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Last week: TheJournal Commenters complain that the government isn’t doing enough for the unemployed to get them back into work.
This week: The government does something for the unemployed and commenters still aren’t happy.
As per usual everything the government does is wrong, yet if they don’t do anything that’s wrong too! Best thing is that none of ye have seen the plan yet and still are complaining about it. Forest of whinge comment from last week springs to mind!
Sounds very promising.Yet all their promises came to fuck all.Dont forget the usual smokescreens for the bondholder payouts.Another big payout soon.
What a joke and Another PR stunt! Every other policy being pursued by te government is causing job losses.. ie all the extra taxes and charges etc etc
this is another load of horse manure being told to us by this goverment.
Ah, the long awaited 5 point plan for jobs……
They wouldn’t know a 5 point plan if it hit them straight in the face.
That photograph says it all…..
100000 is a low ambition target. Half that amount will be lost due to closures during the same period. I would like to see Richard Bruton and co challenging themselves to set the target much higher. It is better to set high targets that may not be achieved rather than lower ones that have a good chance of being met.
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