Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

There are two critical things. One is the setting of targets for the completion of the various stages. We have to be very clear. This is what we have to engage with local authorities about. There is no point in us setting a target and saying that if we get a stage three application in, we will deal with it in two weeks. If the stage three application that comes in is not up to scratch, we are not going to be able to deal with it in two weeks. There has to be an understanding that we will set targets and do everything we can to honour those targets. However, it has to be on the basis of proper documentation.

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