Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Finally, in terms of the planning regulator's recommendations, the way I read it is that there are no low-, medium- and high-risk recommendations, but there are the short-, medium- and long-term ones. I am reading it that the short-term recommendations are the high-risk ones because they need to be implemented in a very short period of time.

I have two questions for Ms Buckley. One relates to the legal services she has just outlined. She says that she hopes the matter will be dealt with by the end of April. Is that process on track? I know recruitment was under way. With regard to reinforcing public confidence and the statement to be included in the template for inspector reports, time and time again we have seen inspector reports differing from the reports of the board. I am not saying that will change under this new regime but I wonder whether the declaration or oath that inspectors will give, and to which planners will probably also adhere, will change the outcome of decisions of the board or reports given by inspectors.