Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage

9:30 am

Mr. Dave Walsh:

It is, indeed. It is important to understand that it is a report that has fed in a lot to the board's work. All the 36 actions relate to the actions on which the board is leading. The board has partially implemented another 21 of the remaining actions but we have not completed them all. Taking those two together, that is 57 of the 70 actions. Some 31 of the actions that remain are legislative issues that are being considered as part of the planning review and the Department can address those. The board has not been sitting on its hands doing nothing on these issues. When we were preparing our five-year strategic plan in 2018, we incorporated all of what we saw were the pragmatic and reasonable steps and actions that were recommended within the report. We have built them into our five-year strategy. That strategy is live until 2023. As part of that process, every year the board adopts what it calls an annual delivery plan, with clear actions and outcomes to be taken.

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