Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

As we discussed, the recommendation is that as far as we understand it - and we were pretty categoric about this - whatever about the rights and wrongs of the appointments or people's views on the appointments, they were within the legislation and in that sense there was not a breach of the legislation. There is not much more our committee can do about it. However, we have said that we have some interest in the issue of appointments to An Bord Pleanála and if the petitioner has issues about that more general question, that might be something he could consider petitioning on to examine ways to improve the appointments process for the board. That might be an interesting discussion for many people but there is not much more further we can go with the previous decision. It was a long time ago, which added to the difficulty and the issue also came before the environment committee in the past. That is the best we can offer the petitioner in this case.