Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála

3:50 pm

Dr. Mary Kelly:

I believe we are doing something about that, although I am not aware of it happening at all. We must decide if a change is material. If it is, we require the developer to re-advertise the new development and we accept more submissions. The Deputy clearly has a case in mind but from the point of view of the board we also feel that natural justice would not be served if there was a material change and somebody who did not object in the first place then discovers something completely different was being done. To my knowledge, that does not happen in the board. We decide if the change is material and then ask the developer to re-advertise what is effectively the new plan. We give people a chance to come back with new submissions and we consider them. That is our policy.

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