Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála

9:00 am

Mr. Dave Walsh:

Colleagues can step in and clarify this if they wish. The original estimate back in 2014 and 2015 was about €2.9 million. Once we advertised and got our tenders in, the process of developing the project and trying to integrate the complex statutory process An Bord Pleanála has across 150 different types of cases took longer than we thought. The contracts for our advisers, PwC at the time, which is an expert on technical matters, in explaining the system and in trying to provide programme management expertise, and for the designers, had to be extended by a year. As of-----

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