Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is the problem. Reading through the transcript, we see that several members from across different political parties raised issues on 13 May 2021 with regard to the soaring legal costs, the scope for conflicts of interest and the potential trends that were emerging.

Members dealing on a part-time basis with oversight of 250 bodies were able to ask him about all those issues, and his response to all of them was that there is nothing to see and that processes and procedures were in place. Does he now accept committee members were able to identify it and it was journalists, not An Bord Pleanála or any system it has in place, who exposed the issues leading to the three reviews, when it was Mr. Walsh's job to do that? Does Mr. Walsh not consider that he has failed in his job as Accounting Officer to An Bord Pleanála?