Thread by @NoonanJoe

WWN: The government celebrated its confidence vote win by ramming through a planning bill which every single interested party that isn’t a money grabbing developer has labeled ‘a disaster’. @WhisperNewsLTD
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WWN smashes embargo😂
The vote doesn't happen until after debate that begins this evening at 7.09pm & ends around half nine.
The government hammered through the suspension of standing orders earlier today - a move needed because the late changes are o/s the scope of the Bill.

Watch this morning's episode unfold in our real time thread - almost as good as Being There and with echoes of Stranger Things

https://twitter.com/NoonanJoe/status/1547101448634507264?s=20&t=SrfRKd7mY9eb5w56boepYA

Over at thejournal.ie @CormFitz goes deep thejournal.ie/judicial-revie…

For the inspiration behind the WWN story and with a sharp dose of realism, blended with horror, you have this from @mickcliff irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

Galway's point before halftime on Saturday had more scrutiny than these amendments.

Seán O'Shea's winner for Kerry on Sunday was in the air for longer than the time most sections tonight will be given.

#Guillotine #BadPlanning #FoulPlay #FinalWhistle

Anyway, props to Waterford's 6th favourite local news source, the one and only @WhispersNewsLTD The scourge of the people who need scourging real bad.

#BadPlanners

The lap of dishonour is in the Seanad @ 4.45pm. It will last for 45 mins. - less than a minute a page for the 47.5pp of amendments alone.
Exactly what the Chief Justice warned against in 2018.
The senior civil servants pushing this hate judges looking over their shoulders.

Someone within the system crafted this and gave it to legislators (at the last minute) as if it were true and fair. It is neither. It is the opposite.
On Amendment 25 (part) -

You can read the text for yourself -

Extra info from me, drawn from experience of the Court's approach to remittal:
1. There is no reluctance to remit.
2. There is already a presumption in favour of remittal.
3. This change is mandatory, so it directly attacks the discretion a judge has not to remit for good reason.

Those amendments in full - data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/…

The one I am commenting on is No. 26, not 25 gmls.

The cases on the principles governing remittal are well known to every lawyer in the field.

Now in the Seanad, with @aliceeire oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-…

This is for, the record, a shameful act says @LNBDublin. A complete disrespect to this House.
Shout out to An Taisce, IEN, @FredPLogue and @mickclliff

@SenatorKeogan says the best report on this was by @WhispersNewsLTD yesterday.

icymi ->

https://twitter.com/WhispersNewsLTD/status/1547195388830138369?s=20&t=Wo0jqPHuywBMC8IGy76HDQ

Sen Keogan quotes Phoebe Duvall of @AnTaisce.

And cites @attractaub before going into the crazy short time given to legislators to review these changes.

Minister claims without evidence that he flagged these changes in the Seanad last April.

He didnt tell us what he was going to do, says @aliceeire.

Compares that with the "flexibility" now given to developers to decide what they want to build.

A mirrored disregard for democracy and transparency in both the planning process and the legislative process.

They are all the time trying to put the finger on one side of the scales to tip them in favour of the developer and against everyone else.

Notes the serious legal concerns raised incl. impermissible trespassing on EIA, Aarhus Convention rights of the public.

Incentivise developers to delay while maximising profits, like when standards on apartments were lowered, supposedly to speed up building, which did not work.

The original bill, even before the extra forty eight pages were parachuted in, was a bad bill - @aliceeire

WWN being praised in the Seanad brings a fitting end to a thread that opened with their great take on this scandal so well done @WhispersNewsLTD

This might well bump WWN up a notch or two from its already proud claim to be Waterford's 6th fave local newspaper.
#NosebleedTerritory