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:

That figure covers cases that were lost and conceded. There is a combination of court judgments against the board in some of those cases. To set the context, the difficulty and challenge for the board is that where we get a ruling from the court, which may be nine or 12 months after the judicial review papers are lodged, the board will, in the meantime, have made a substantial number of decisions, given the volume of cases we are dealing with, particularly in the context of SHD cases. If the court ultimately decides a particular issue or a particular interpretation of law is incorrect, that has knock-on consequences for cases that are still in the system.

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