Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I understand it is there but it needs to be put into an easier format so people can see it.

All conversations, telephone calls, etc., between members of the board should have to be revealed prior to a decision being made. However many people are involved in making a decision, if any of the decision makers had conversations with each other before the decision was made, they should, through An Bord Pleanála processes, have to declare them prior to the decision being made. It is purely a transparency initiative to stop any notion of people coming together to make decisions beforehand. These suggestions are purely to protect the process of An Bord Pleanála.

I return to the recommendations in the review of An Bord Pleanála that I sought. When I was Minister, I had many others balls in the air about other matters, so I did not have much time for this area. I did, however, ask for a complete review of An Bord Pleanála, organisationally, which was done at the time by very eminent people. I rarely do this, but I submitted a parliamentary question to my former Department, asking for an update, in chronological order, on the 101 recommendations contained in that review. The Department refused to do that. The Ceann Comhairle will be dealing with the matter and I look forward to that being resolved. Will Mr. Walsh please provide the committee, within in a week or two, with the current status of those 101 recommendations?