Planning probe cost won’t pass €159m despite awards

The full costs of the Planning Tribunal will not go beyond the estimated €159 million despite the decision to award costs to former minister Ray Burke and a number of businessmen.

“We wrote to a number of individuals arousing out of the Redmond case, indicating that the previous ruling denying them their costs was being withdrawn and that they would now get an order for costs,” a spokeswoman for the tribunal said.

The findings of hindering and obstruction made against the individuals in its second and third interim reports are now in the process of being removed.