Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us bring it back to the previous point. On the basis that most cases involve a board of three, if there were perhaps ten, there would be a better opportunity for somebody to state, under the imperative reasons of overriding public interest provisions, that 13,000 families were affected. An Bord Pleanála was not providing adequate scope. Its practice is to involve three persons, but there is the potential to miss the emergency aspect of supplying clean water to 13,000 families. As Mr. Walsh stated, we cannot discuss individual cases, but I am discussing a hypothetical one that happens to mirror an actual case.

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