Inside Politics: Dáil and Seanad are not sitting until tomorrow but there are several key political setpieces already in train
The Taoiseach asked Attorney General Rossa Fanning to draw up a report into the matter , which is due to go to Cabinet and be published afterwards. All the indications - most notably Leo Varadkar’s bullish blanket defence of the legal strategy last Tuesday - are that Fanning will make good on an initial analysis apparently proffered at Cabinet last week, endorsing the legality of the State strategy.
The process of pre-legislative scrutiny is painstaking parliamentary grunt work, but there is a seam of political jeopardy running through the housing committee’s work on the Planning and Development Bill, 2022,. Like all pre-legislative scrutiny, this will get very detailed and spend plenty of time in the weeds, but the outcome is important, with the Government insistent that the overhaul of the planning system is needed, while a host of Green Party-adjacent NGOs are flagging concerns.
No sign of any post-Cabinet media engagements yet, with the AG’s report likely to take centre stage once published.progress in key talks between the European Union and the UK on Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit arrangementsThe aforementioned pre-legislative scrutiny of the planning Bill kicks off at 3pm in a public session of the housing committee. There are private meetings of the same committee, as well as of the health and foreign affairs and defence committees.
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