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
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source
I will not get into that. It is on the record anyway. One of the submissions turned out to be fictitious, if the witnesses remember that. It got all the way up to the end of the planning process. This was acknowledged. In fairness, An Bord Pleanála responded to the issue at the time. To me, that means the decision-making process is not correct, because a component of that decision was something that should never have got through. As a result, the hotel ended up not being built in south Kerry and many people did not end up with jobs. It had a dramatic impact on a small community. This has been well reported on. What has happened since then to make sure that can never happen again? What changes have been made?
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