Environmental and Planning Law

Role of the Committee

Rachel_Minch_SC.jpgThe Law Society’s Environmental and Planning Law Committee comprises solicitors experienced in environmental and planning law. The Committee monitors developments in relation to law reform or legislative proposals in the area of environmental and planning law: The objectives of the Committee are:

 

  1. To assist the Law Society in its interventions undertaken in relation to law reform or legislative proposals in the area of environmental and planning law

  2. To provide expert knowledge and guidance in relation to the body of environmental and planning law and its complexity and acting as a reference point for the Society and the Council on environmental and planning law matters;

  3. To cooperate with and assisting other committees/task forces on horizontal environmental and planning law matters and issues cutting across different areas of law.

  4. To prepare submissions, statements and observations on environmental and planning law matters which are balanced, principles-based, and compliant with the Society’s policy development and communication processes.


Chair: Rachel Minch SC

Vice-Chair: Conor Linehan SC  

Members

  • Eoin Brady
  • Danielle Conaghan
  • Brendan Curran
  • Rory Ferguson
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Nap Keeling
  • Margaret O’Leary
  • Elaine Oonan
  • Zoe Richardson
  • Fergal Ruane
  • Gabriel Toolan

Secretary: Clare Tarpey

 


Current issues on the Committee's agenda include:

The Environmental and Planning Law Committee endeavours to monitor all developments in relation to law reform or legislative proposals in the area of environmental and planning law.

  1. Submission in relation to pre-legislative scrutiny of the Draft Planning and Development Bill 2022

Representatives of the Environmental and Planning Law Committee appeared in front of the Joint Committee for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on 2 March 2023.


Please email any queries to the Committee Secretary, Clare Tarpey.