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

I have to press on because I have only two minutes and I have four questions. One is on the oral hearings. I have always felt that there has been a bit of uneven application of how the board decides an oral hearing. The board's annual report states that oral hearings are sometimes held in relation to "CPO cases, strategic infrastructure applications and other cases which are complex and/or large in scale". That is fair enough. In 2021, 18 oral hearings were held, of which 16 related to CPOs and one related to strategic development, which I find a bit odd given the fact that there were SHDs and everything else. They were very large scale as well, but there were no oral hearings for those applications in 2021. I do not have the figures for oral hearings for 2022. Perhaps Ms Buckley might outline them for me. For the purposes of comparison with the small number of 18 in 2021, can Ms Buckley give us a rough estimation of how many oral hearings were granted by the board in 2018 and 2019?